If it’s anything like Reddit’s bots, they’ll probably post copy-pasted comments to gain upvotes, then they’ll start spamming advertisements and scams once they have a good amount.
Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.
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Are any of these accounts bots?
Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?
Are they all bots?
I’m no bot and joined 6 days ago :)
Welcome friend.
Yes unfortunately but lemmy is still growing
I’m going to link my comment because I don’t want to rewrite it for everyone I reply to where it is relevant
https://lemmy.world/comment/548294
Thanks for the reply!
And I totally agree.
About 2.45 million of the 2.5 are, yes.
As i suspected.
Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.
Thats seems bad. I know some bots are hepful. But 1 million bots seems like they for something nefariously.
Like trying to keep people on reddit?
I’d go to Facebook first
Or just too generally troll the fediverse.
Yeah, I hope that people farming them are just trolling the fediverse and don’t plan on using them.
Lol trolling is bad. A bot army could make things miserable here.
Trolling in the sense making people freak out while not doing anything with those bots. That’s what I’m hoping for although it’s improbable.
I was thinking more racist transphobic trolling aided by an amry of lurking upvoting bots…but ya know.
If it’s anything like Reddit’s bots, they’ll probably post copy-pasted comments to gain upvotes, then they’ll start spamming advertisements and scams once they have a good amount.
I’m just afraid that these bots are bascially here to sabotage lemmy.
The fediverse is so awesome, there is no way big social media corps can play nice in the long term.
So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don’t understand the purpose of bots.
Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.
Still don’t get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.
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Oh boy, I, for one, love the taste of Diet Coke, the perfect refreshing drink when you and your family watch my new movie, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.
Companies advertising on here through AMA’s should also be prevented because it’s just advertising
They don’t want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area