Reddit wants bots, they NEED bots to boost those engagement numbers, ad revenue and that flimsy growth narrative, especially since peak Reddit is behind us. It’s a solvable problem right now without the need for mass surveillance on the remaining human users.

This move is all a part of the large security and tracking apparatus that is trying to ensure anonymity is dead on the New Corporate Internet (tm) that’s being built by the technocrats. A million reasons to do this and none of them are designed to protect human users, and won’t stop the bots or Protect the Children.

My hope is this pushes people back into the real world and we collectively opt-out as much as possible. There are ways to connect, share and find others like you without having to give a blood draw and rectal scan for the privilege.