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reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I swear to god the people arguing against the fediverse are fake, their arguments are so unimaginably bad that I can't imagine they aren't coming from a disinformation campaign
It wouldn't be surprising:
Even the user names are formatted in a similar fashion.
That's reddit's auto-generated username format. Most bots use those.
Hey, some of us just lack imagination.