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How to avoid the Reddit downfall
(lemmy.world)
Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023
A big part of the problem that led to bot spam and karma farming wasn't the existence of karma but the fact that most of Reddit treated karma as a proxy for legitimacy, so it was often used for Reddit accounts that were going to be sold off for astroturfing purposes.