Yeah it depends on the sub but for the bigger ones it’s absolutely infested, if you go to one of the subs which takes removing bots transparently like the Tumblr ones you can get a sense of the scale.
The general subs aka the ones you see on the front page, are full of them. Niche ones like cryptography won’t have much bot activity, but it’s definitely not zero either.
is Reddit really flooded with bots? I only visit the cryptography subreddit which seems pretty human to me
Yeah it depends on the sub but for the bigger ones it’s absolutely infested, if you go to one of the subs which takes removing bots transparently like the Tumblr ones you can get a sense of the scale.
The general subs aka the ones you see on the front page, are full of them. Niche ones like cryptography won’t have much bot activity, but it’s definitely not zero either.