• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yup I work in software security and I personally know several subreddits that are bought and even more where admins are insiders shilling their own products. Has been the case for years and Reddit doesn’t care.

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      1 month ago

      The entire /r/SEO subreddit is just one guy, on three different accounts, trying to sell people on his agency, which is one of the weakest ones out there. Competitors are filtered out.

        • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca
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          1 month ago

          Holy shit this makes so much sense. I never figured cloudfare was worth using for some simple self hosted services, but whenever I would read about other peoples setups, they would make it seem like it was absolutely necessary, impossible to replicate on your own.