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shostackyesterday at 7:44 PM1 replyview on HN

It also was because it became a target to influence and manipulate people both by every day scammers and marketers as well as nation state level actors.


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TFNAyesterday at 7:47 PM

Sure, but that didn't hit a lot of small hobby subreddits until recently. But the discussion culture there had already declined starting a decade ago, and it was ordinary subreddit denizens and their phones to blame, not bots or geopolitical intrigues.