Pretty simple solution.
Stop using reddit.
In the search bar type
Author:(username)
Shows you every post and comment they’ve made, including “hidden” ones, with more sort options than their actual profile.
This worked for me for a little while, but then some update must have patched it up.
Not long after, a redditor dropped the following link:
Any post or message containing this link is auto-banned immediately on reddit. Even though bot infestation has been a problem for a bit, I think a lot of actual redditors set their profiles to prevent A.I. scraping
Literally used it today with no problems 🤷♂️
I’m pretty sure this doesn’t work if a user has hidden their posts
It 100% does. Did it earlier today.
Gotta love clientside permissions implementations
Competent devs solved that like in 2007…
Well it hides it from your profile, but it’s still publicly posted on Reddit. It’s just searching the entire site. Bit silly that it doesn’t filter your username from the search function when turned on though.
A lot of people don’t realise you can still see all their posts. I mainly use Reddit for porn these days and a lot of times people will post nudes with their face censored, hide their posts, then show their face in regular subreddits not realising it’s all still searchable.
Eventually their stock price will crater if the platform hollows out any more. Companies pay a lot of money for advertisements and they measure the effectiveness of the ads. Ad platforms (usually) spend a lot of money to ensure that impressions aren’t wasted on bot traffic.
If you shed your user base while amplifying bot accounts, there’s no reason for companies to bring their ad spend to you.
Once again MBA greed and short term thinking wrecks something that had value.
Not wrecked. Cashed out. It’s intentional, and they’re just making as much as they can get away with, before the well dries out.
It’s wrecked for the users, sure, but this is what capitalism is. Stealing and selling what others created, for profit, fucking them over.
Also, if they do not reign in the bots, their data becomes useless for AI companies, so these deals will stop to pay too.
Yeah but their terminal failure mode is making the case for Lemmy far more impactfully than its own creators ever can, so there’s that
Haven’t checked myself but a while back someone told me you can still find the posts and comments if you search for the user. So that basically just adds an extra step
The irony is that me, a real person, gets banned and banned some more, for saying something pro-Republican back in 2012, while these bot accounts spray slop all over the site with immunity.
It’s ok, I’ve been perma-banned for stating the simple fact that Andrew Tate deserves to be beaten to death in a dark and hopeless Brazilian prison. So they’ve come full circle.
to be fair, you should be banned from everywhere, where people have civil discussions. Once for promoting murder, obviously, and then again for not knowing the difference between opinion and fact.
That sucks man. I got banned for “anti-Zionism”. Reddit really has become a meaningless wasteland for anyone with political opinions.
FUCK ALL ZIOS, UNLOVINGLY
are you still republican?
