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by yieldcrv 1098 days ago
its also not a big stretch to acknowledge anybody could harm anybody else’s app with an astroturfing campaign

something more obvious right now given how bad the astroturfing campaign is. one word reviews?

everyone knows Reddit is vulnerable to a thousand cuts right now, its the perfect time to do so

I’ve seen that in a lot of crypto projects, because people consistently develop a parasocial relationship with the founders and then try to digitally harm them after the founders dont do what they expect

this looks and acts like the same thing

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True, although given there's no real competition to Reddit, I personally find it difficult to believe this particular scenario

> something more obvious right now given how bad the astroturfing campaign is. one word reviews?

I imagine one doesn't have a good way of making sure they'll get good, quality fake reviews from farms in 3rd world countries. But also, it's about as bad (in terms of PR) as spez's communications and interview so