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…
The bots¹ I noticed are all posts, no comments. Mostly memes, or comics, or YSK, or similar. New account, less than 7 days. Their posts aways get on front page sorted by All/Top-Day.
¹Suspected bots, no clue if they are bots. But given that 90-9-1 rule, comments should be higher than posts imo, like why post stuff if you just never engage in comments, weirdo. 20 posts in political stuff and 0 comments is sus as hell.
Anyways, maybe we need to return to Ham Radios lol. Try botting thats shit.
Ham radios could totally be botted, there are plenty of voice models out there that would sound convincing. I assume there’s just not much call for it yet because there aren’t many people to reach on ham radio.
Once people start congregating to a new medium, that medium will become worth targeting. I don’t think that can be stopped without some heavy duty gatekeeping. You might want to read up on proof of personhood protocols for some ideas.