Social media websites are "cracking down one ToS violations", well that's what they want advertisers to believe. The reality is that they're eliminating all the users advertisers want to target, because everyone breaks the ToS, even the advertisers.
Well, everyone except the bots, those very bots artificially inflate the number of users, making it appear the site is popular. Advertisers, being as clueless as they are, fall for this tactic and ultimately are scammed out of their money by a corporation that's more dirty than they are.
Reddit, Facebook, even LinkedIn are all following suite. Though Facebook and LinkedIn are trying to actually fix the issue, Reddit is not.
There are thousands of bots posting on Reddit every second, all run by moderators, most of the "moderators" of every subreddit are bots. They do not understand context, they do not understand human communication, they just post preprogrammed texts and react to regex scripts that have been in use since 1985.
Then when a user attempts to communicate with the moderator, they get suspended for "ban evasion" or some other ToS crime. Resulting in no one wanting to spend money on Reddit, and no one wanting to invest in Reddit.
This resulted in them attempting to latch onto that stupid NFT scam, the funny part of Steve Huffman trying that scam too late is not ironic at all. Steve is slow, very slow, like so far behind the times he thinks people will pay for avatars in this day and age.
Now they're back to begging advertisers to join Reddit, while banning the only people who can and will spend money on said advertisers, resulting in nothing but lame religious "ads" or other obvious scams. When an advertiser doesn't see a lot of fucking shit, like "fuck" and "shit" that's human, they automatically assume the content was generated by a bot, and rightfully so.
Because almost all of Reddit's content today is generated by bots. Welcome to the future, a broken system called capitalism finally dying.
