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One bot’s review is referring to Reddit as Tripomate. Lol oh reddit…
This reminds to give reddit 1 star on Playstore.
Same here
Currently 2.4/5.0 on the Play Store. Wasn’t that long ago when it was around 4.0. Their rating has taken a beating over the last few weeks.
Before the API pricing change, the Reddit app could be considered an internal hobby project made by a handful of employees on their spare time.
Now that this one is mandatory, it can be rated for what it is.
They’re also definitely doing some sort of keyword manipulation, cause the official Reddit App is fairly high in the result list when searching for Lemmy.
On another note: hi, I just came here today after RIF stopped working 👋
Welcome!
I’m here full time too since I got connect.
I gave it a 1 star review. I’m doing my part o7
Just left mine. Fuck u/spez
just left a 1 star review, because it honestly deserves it
Lmao I saw a 5 star review that said the official app was “better than any 3rd party app”, that it had “non-intrusive ads”, and asking for an ads toggle for premium users to be able to support reddit. I can’t even tell if it’s some sort of elaborate sarcasm. Wild.
Ironic that the FTC is going to likely make these illegal soon. Anyone want to save screenshots?
After seeing this, I thought I’d go over to the Play Store to leave a 1 star review. Then discovered I had already left a 1 star review (complaining about their shitty interface) a few months ago, which I’d totally forgotten about ;-)
Just leave my first 1 star to reddit app
No. It’s the new bot users rating their new favorite app.
Can’t say I’m even remotely surprised. It’s unfortunate that even user reviews have become all but useless on most platforms due to corpo bullshit like this.
good things corporations are people too so their votes they paid for count right?
I don’t really understand what this has to do with lobbying, but sure.
I don’t really understand what this has to do with lobbying, but sure.
I don’t really understand what this has to do with lobbying, but sure.
I don’t really understand what this has to do with lobbying, but sure.
I don’t really understand what this has to do with lobbying, but sure.
I don’t really understand what this has to do with lobbying, but sure.
Reddit is completely astroturfed now. Nothing but bots and humans that act like bots.
it’s not just that reddit turned into a huge greedy corpo-clusterfuck when they went public, it was kinda bad before that too and held bad practices. Lemmy has a lot of the same features that made reddit shit on a fundamental level.
The up-vote downvote system itself is a both a curse and blessing. it’s sorts things decently but it encourages mediocrity and bot like behaviour in people, if one likes to put it that way. It makes discussing anything controversial and where the issue isn’t black or white, impossible. Good for cat pics and tits, but really bad for politics and the like, because everything eventually floats towards some status quo and everybody and everything else is sidelined and encouraged to shut up or go with the flow or face downvote barrage.
Also the bots are here, not yet, but they will be. Bots are easy to make here too. If this place ever gets even decently popular this place will get astroturfed and up-vote manipulated just like reddit. it’s too easy to manipulated community opinion or shill for issues or things in site like this. Federated structure might help or make it worse.
I feel like I must be crazy but these reviews do not read like 5 star reviews. Seems super suspect.
You’re right. One specifically mentions ‘would rate this 0 if I could’ so in lieu of that option, they selected a…5?
Have they gone through and scraped the text from a bunch of real reviews and are reposting them with 5 star ratings to make them look organic?
The last time it was posted I investigated the reviews on Google play, and every rating was made by a real person, or a bot impersonating the real person. There is no way to tell appart except by contacting the person.
Avoid falling into a circle jerk, we are better than this.Is that second one not what you would do if you were trying to generate reviews that would pass automated checks? The hard part is deciding if the fake reviews were requested/bought/generated by Reddit or if they’re an independent bot network trying to establish legitimacy or mask directed action.
Or just when there is a movement a protests there is always a bunch of people against the protest.
Bunch of redditors are pissed off that we ruin their addiction.
In the account I checked, somes had a selfie of themselves that werent indexed on google yet. To me it point out it’s more likely a genuine accountThe real people I’m not commenting on, I’m commenting on the bots. The question is why they’re reviewing the Reddit app, and that’s basically unknowable without an investigation well beyond my skill level and pay grade. They could be a bot network trying to build credibility or a bot network cashing out and leaving paid reviews.
You seems to miss my point from the very beginning: I’m saying it’s maybe not bots. Don’t fall into confirmation bias.
You’re the one who said some of the reviews were copies of legitimate reviews! What else would that be besides bots? I’m not making any definite conclusions about why those bots are there, in fact I was trying to be explicit about the fact that we can’t assume intent, but the bots are there.
I did not said that. I said it was legit reviews OR bot impersonating users, and there is no easy way to tell.
AH, I misunderstood what this meant, then:
The last time it was posted I investigated the reviews on Google play, and every rating was made by a real person, or a bot impersonating the real person. There is no way to tell appart except by contacting the person.
I read this to mean that you were finding duplicate reviews where one set seemed to be bots impersonating the other set. But, your comment clarifies what you meant. My bad.
