For anyone who doesn’t want to translate the French post and German comments: Reddit is using bots to fill copycat subs with local content by machine-translating successful posts of the original subs, and then spammed every user from that country with an admin message about those subs.
Social media sites are usually valued by how many active users they have, so what's a better measure of that?
I am not very active, but people are following me daily.
It's not like they need first to detect those users are bots.
They could use “fake = 1” to report the number of fake users. Or “fake != 1” to report the number of real users.
I can’t imagine the gymnastics they would have to do to make a fake user count palatable in a road show so again, I think your interpretation is most likely. Then again, I’m about a billion dollars short of my opinion mattering…
It's more likely to be some kind of prettified name like "internal public accounts for assuring control of external applications," some sort of technical name that doesn't really make sense by itself but is complicated enough that it looks like someone knew what they're doing when they came up with it.
Management would flip if they stumbled on anything titled "fake." It's way easier to just hide red flags behind technical sounding terms than it is to try to explain why a "problem" isn't a problem and shifting the blame to someone you won't miss.
Sure, they could be dumb enough to do that, but no evidence of it.
I agree, but all content _is_ generated by users.
Maybe they're hoping to find a private buyer for all of their equity who's willing to waive due diligence.
(this is more a user persona rather than meaning an actual tiktok user but it seems that's the way Reddit wants to go)