I have been lurking on Reddit for 5 years with only one follower. In last 5 days, I got 6 followers out of nowhere. Do anyone living same thing? Could Reddit have fallen that far? Also, when I look at my follower list, I still have that one loyal follower.

I hope I’m not doing conspiracy theory.

    • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve got like 20 nsfw follower whats weird is when I try to block them the app errors every time so I can’t block them

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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t know, because I have not once opened new reddit, old.reddit doesn’t show followers, and I am banned anyway so haven’t visited the site in weeks.

    It’s an open secret that reddit tacitly allows bots that generate engagement on the site, so most all the followers are probably just random bots, either reddit-run or no.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t even have “online status” enabled, so I don’t have follows, but saw someone who have it, and it was mostly girls to promote their onlyfans page or something like it.

    And my account have 12 years

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    1 year ago

    Yes, all from brand-new, zero-karma accounts with what appear to be auto-generated usernames.