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The original was posted on /r/save3rdpartyapps by /u/FrostyPig34 on 2023-11-25 23:12:08.

Since a couple of months I’ve seen a massive influx of repost bots. I am on r/Imthemaincharacter and like 70% of new posts are reposts by bots. The way you recognize them that they’re bots is 1. The bots copy the top comment from the original post and comment on their own repost with it 2. Their username is a randomly generated username by Reddit 3. When checking their account you can see that they have a few posts (reposts) on very particular subs like r/contagiouslaughter r/perfectlycutscreams and r/falloutnewvegas that’s a very weird collection of subreddits, I am not sure why are they attacking those in particular, and the mods can barely manage it, it’s like a plague. And I am pretty sure that the API changes have a part In this. The goal of these bots is to get as much karma as possible. Many are speculating that the bots then will go on to astroturf subreddits.