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by han-tyumi 1092 days ago
Reddit is a little different as their intention was to populate the platform with content in the early days [1], not to mislead investors with fake metrics.

Mind you that Huffman and Ohanian did this manually, while founders today can use LLMs to fill their platforms with bots that can interact "naturally" with users. I wonder how many are already doing it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME

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I have no real proof, but based on the volume of replies/likes I get on throwaway comments, I strongly believe TikTok does this.
How far has Reddit come from "no censoring" (3:39).