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The next move is to use AI to generate posts and comments
spez says that's how he got reddit off the ground in the first place: faking content/engagement (well, genuinely engaging with his account(s?), but essentially shouting into the void and hoping enough people heard and wanted to stick around.
with a RedditUserBot trained on reddit users, you might be able to fake another decade of growth.
I honestly think that has been happening with all these publications websites.