I’ve only been back to visit a small, private sub, but I’ve seen a lot of posts here saying that a high percentage of bot content is obvious. The conjecture is that there’s always been a lot of bots, but they were somewhat less obvious because there was more human content. With a lot of big content creators leaving, it’s more apparent when a lot of posts and comments are from bots.

Plus some people think Reddit has increased bot usage to astroturf against the protests and to give the illusion that traffic isn’t down.