• Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    Yup I work in software security and I personally know several subreddits that are bought and even more where admins are insiders shilling their own products. Has been the case for years and Reddit doesn’t care.

    • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
      11 months

      Well you can’t leave us hanging like that. Which ones?

        • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.caEnglish
          11 months

          Holy shit this makes so much sense. I never figured cloudfare was worth using for some simple self hosted services, but whenever I would read about other peoples setups, they would make it seem like it was absolutely necessary, impossible to replicate on your own.

    • kadu@lemmy.world
      11 months

      The entire /r/SEO subreddit is just one guy, on three different accounts, trying to sell people on his agency, which is one of the weakest ones out there. Competitors are filtered out.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Yup. One of the philosophy subs is obviously doing that. I unsubed.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      11 months

      yup im a forum that does that, ban evaders are doing this too, the ones that have hordes of accounts.

  • ssɐqɯnᗡ@quokk.auEnglish
    11 months

    Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, I think I need to give my username up to this guy.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    11 months

    5 years ago now I was offered 6,000$ to sell /r/RSPS. That subreddit had like 100 monthly views. Imagine how much bigger subs go for

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      11 months

      I’m guessing it’s harder to secretly sell bigger subs though. Though I bet it happens.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Bezos does indeed own the Post through a holding company.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11 months

        I wasn’t saying he didn’t. Just that Meta doesn’t hold a candle to AWS as far as control over the internet.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11 months

          Ah! Yeah, most people think Amazon the store. They have no clue as to what AWS is up to, probably don’t know it’s a thing.

          If you’re not a major player with major scaling needs, can’t see why people stick with AWS. Our spend at my last job was $6 million a year, with an M. Fuck me. Give me $1 million and I could replicate our infra and be just as reliable. And much of that would be a 1-time cost.

          Tiny example; I’m paying $15mo. for a LightSail instance to run my PiHole. Why?! Been too lazy to grab a Raspberry Pi out of my box and fire it up. $180 bucks a year and I already have the hardware to run it reliably and locally.

          • deranger@sh.itjust.works
            11 months

            can’t see why people stick with AWS

            uses AWS instead of a raspberry pi

            I think you see exactly why people use AWS.

            been too lazy

            • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11 months

              Signed up to learn because my company was heavily invested in AWS and I had buckets of money. That’s why.

  • SolidShake@lemmy.world
    11 months

    I wanted to sell my reddit account but then it got a scammer badge lmao. Whatever though. I tried.

      • SolidShake@lemmy.world
        11 months

        From what the mods told me is that I inquired about selling my reddit account so they mark it as a scammer so whoever buys the account won’t be able to do much with it

        • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
          11 months

          Oh, so they have an algo checking for keywords in messages and just auto-flagging? Clever… That does make doing business a bit of a pain.

          • SolidShake@lemmy.world
            11 months

            Well. I had no clue that it was frowned upon to be honest. But someone said something about selling accounts I was like “damn I’m at 8 years and almost a million karma”. I found a website of account sellers and my account could have gone for 400-500 dollars at that time.

            But! I found out since my ban that a lot of Chinese bot accounts and scam accounts will pay for these high karma reddit accounts so they can bypass a lot of subreddit checks and they can just bot post for a super long time.

            Oh well. In the end I got perma banned because I said I wish the shooter was real and shit 2 inches to the right 🤷

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    11 months

    So where was this posted? It looks like X to me, but I don’t use X and never have, so I’m not sure. There are so freaking many platforms, that it would have been nice to include where it was posted.
    If it is on reddit, I don’t see any subreddit?

    Anyways, no matter where it was posted it’s moronic. I wonder if it gains anything for anyone?

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        11 months

        Thanks. 👍
        And: Ah yes X the very reliable non manipulative platform with strict rules of decency, no chance they are the “game” themselves. /s