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@kbin.social
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    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.

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      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

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        1 year ago

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