I’ve seen at least 2 post today where a front page post has many normal looking comments, but their username was [deleted] Doesn’t seem normal, any theories on whats going on?

Is my browser bugged?

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Yea, that typically doesn’t happen to entire comment sections.

      Seems like reddit being reddit again, website glitches and all.

      That’s why Lemmy is still my favorite platform.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Entire comment sections are just bots, for the most part, if reddit is actually identifying bots and non humans then it would be normal to see wasteland threads.

        The Internet is in a sad state.

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Weird thing is like I browsed 5 threads and its all just [deleted], seemed like a site-wide system crash lol

          I think reddit might actually powered by a hamster running on a wheel, and the hamster is just dead from exhaustion.

      • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I’ve found that on every Reddit post I saw this evening ( I was looking for some advice ). Nested comments loaded with “load more” seem fine, and hovering over “deleted” seems to bring up the user if they weren’t actually deleted so I assume it’s just some weird glitch or maybe related to something Reddit is trying to implement?

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Bots will sometimes recycle old comments, so even if they’re normal sounding they might not be authentic. And with LLMs now you might not be able to tell the difference. Could be Reddit being bullshit or could be them correctly identifying inauthentic behavior with some behind the scenes searching and metrics.