They’re also definitely doing some sort of keyword manipulation, cause the official Reddit App is fairly high in the result list when searching for Lemmy.

On another note: hi, I just came here today after RIF stopped working 👋

One bot’s review is referring to Reddit as Tripomate. Lol oh reddit…

I gave it a 1 star review. I’m doing my part o7

This reminds to give reddit 1 star on Playstore.

Just leave my first 1 star to reddit app

just left a 1 star review, because it honestly deserves it

No. It’s the new bot users rating their new favorite app.

After seeing this, I thought I’d go over to the Play Store to leave a 1 star review. Then discovered I had already left a 1 star review (complaining about their shitty interface) a few months ago, which I’d totally forgotten about ;-)

Currently 2.4/5.0 on the Play Store. Wasn’t that long ago when it was around 4.0. Their rating has taken a beating over the last few weeks.

Can’t say I’m even remotely surprised. It’s unfortunate that even user reviews have become all but useless on most platforms due to corpo bullshit like this.