Lemmy has multiplied it’s number of users (maybe more accurately accounts) in just few days. How much do you think is the percentage of bot accounts? Is Lemmy having problem with bot farming?

  • GizmoLion
    4•1 year ago

    Spin up 50 bots.
    Sign them all up for lemmy.
    Let accounts interact/age.
    Sell accounts to companies who want to advertise as one of the cool kids.

    Happened on reddit nonstop.

    • TheDeadGuy
      1•1 year ago

      Any conversation, be it political or commercial. All it takes is something sounding confident, a grain of truth and lots of upvotes to convince people.

      That’s why I like seeing downvoted as a red flag people can pay attention to

      • GizmoLion
        1•1 year ago

        Pretty much why Reddit removed downvotes I think… brands got tired of users raining downvotes on them for shilling lol.

    • adamthinks
      1•1 year ago

      Except that Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma, so there’s no use in doing any of that here.

      • DerWilliWonka
        1•1 year ago

        I have some tiny bit of doubts left but at least it does sound like one possible reason for people swarming servers with bots

          • GizmoLion
            1•1 year ago

            I feel like you’re reading a completely different conversation…

                • GizmoLion
                  0•1 year ago

                  Looks like you are @ing someone I can’t see.

                  Well, that’s the first major point against this fediverse business… Who’s going to stick around to have a conversation when everyone’s only getting bits of it? That’s kinda antithetical to discussion…

                • GizmoLion
                  0•1 year ago

                  Looks like you are @ing someone I can’t see.

                  Well, that’s the first major point against this fediverse business… Who’s going to stick around to have a conversation when everyone’s only getting bits of it? That’s kinda antithetical to discussion…