Was on the other site when a commenter pointed out a response that and like 5 or 6 replies to that comment that were all bots. I am finally getting exposed to the concept of dead internet theory. So, how prevalent are bots on a place like lemmy? Are there natural safeguards against bots? I’m not an engineer and probably need a dumbed down explanation. But I did make it to lemmy! So I’ve got that going for me…
I’m like totally a bot and stuff.
bots aren’t saturating lemmy yet because there are not enough users to automate marketing towards yet. (maybe yes to those special cases where there are big enough communities)
lemmy and fediverse does seem to lack a standard approach to moderation and that includes anti-bot stuff.
u/ we are all @ crazypeople . online
lmao