This may not be a bold prediction, but I imagine that more and more fake users will continue to exist on reddit. No action will be taken to remove bots that are used by governments, marketers, researchers, and soon script kiddies. Reddit employees will know that this is a massive problem, but the business will not want to do anything to stop user growth and jeopardize the value of their platform and its size. Most real people won't know how frequently they are talking to bots, and conversations will be drawn down into the gutter. Within 5 years, 50% of all posts and users will be bots.
I think twitter might be a bit different, only because their staff is probably not directly involved in protecting those bot accounts. I also seem to recall twitter having a few rounds of "bot-takedowns," which might just be a clever way to cover their ass and make it look like they're fighting it.
Hard to say what's going on at twitter though. They've been operating at a loss for... idk, a really long time.
I think twitter might be a bit different, only because their staff is probably not directly involved in protecting those bot accounts. I also seem to recall twitter having a few rounds of "bot-takedowns," which might just be a clever way to cover their ass and make it look like they're fighting it.
Hard to say what's going on at twitter though. They've been operating at a loss for... idk, a really long time.
Twitter is basically the same story and has been getting away with it even though they are publicly traded though. I do wonder if we can expect "readjustments" to their financial reports.