Comment by bodge5000
18 days ago
> Reddit runs bot detection, rate limits, fingerprinting, shadow restrictions, and abuse heuristics you don’t even see, and you don’t know which ones, because that knowledge is their moat.
> Reddit says “run a ranking algorithm refined over years, with vote fuzzing, decay, abuse detection, and intentional lies in the UI.” As the number you see is not the number stored.
> etc...
The question is; is moltbook doing this? That was the original point, it took a week to build a basic reddit clone, as you call it the silhouette, with AI, that should surely be the point of comparison to what a human could do in that time
"A basic Reddit clone"
So as we have established, it's not even a basic Reddit clone.
And anyone who says they can build one in a week is giving HN a bad reputation.
That just seems like a completely different argument, Reddit only came into a part of this in relation to Moltbook