Mapping the Reddit Bot Ecosystem: Taxonomy and Evolution
arXiv:2607.23941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated agents increasingly participate in online communities, yet their population structure and roles remain poorly understood. Using a dataset of 3,389 identified bots and their full activity histories, we construct a taxonomy of bot "species" on the news aggregation and social media platform Reddit based on temporal, community, linguistic, and semantic features. Clustering analysis reveals 18 distinct bot types spanning content-specialized,
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Published: 28 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 28 July 2026
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