Possibly thousands of bots subscribed to multiple subreddits
Not sure what's going on here, thousands of bots just subscribed with no new posts or comments
source
https://reddit.com/comments/1ft95xz
Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
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Conspiracy theory: Spez is orchestrating some sort of pump & dump scheme.
I mean, as long as the bots click on ads, everyone is happy? Riiight?
Companies paying for bots so that other companies pay them for bot clicks. This is truly the worst timeline.
Amen!
That could really be it
Alwayshasbeen.meme
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Reddit is only good for massively reposted memes at this point. Any real communities with any semblance of civility are better on Lemmy, in my opinion, thanks to Reddit's policy of shooting themselves in the foot.
Edit: even with memes, I've found Lemmy to be the better option.
I want /r/3dprinting ! The communities on Lemmy are dead
[email protected] has 1800 monthly active users
Dead communities or Bot communities. Pick one.
There's a few smaller communities on reddit that I like that don't have a presence here, which is unfortunate. I feel ya.
How open are the mods of those communities to promote the Lemmy alternatives?
I have no idea, but I just assume at this point that even mentioning Lemmy on that site would result in either a ban or a shadowban from Spez's lackeys.
Especially memes, tbh. You can see the bots more easily when they try for humor, makes the reddit communities for it feel so uncanny.
Yep, sooo glad I left Reddit for good. Haven't been back at all since I quit and came to Lemmy.
I wonder, could it be related to this?
Ding ding ding. Make it technically possible to private the sub, but then add 5000 bots to every new sub so it’s not actually possible.
I'm sure the growth was completely organic. /s
Yep! Very sus.
You're probably right, that's crazy
Lemmy is way more susceptable to bots than Reddit is, we just don't see it as much because we're a lot smaller. But if Lemmy grows, it'll become a major problem for us too.
Indeed, but then we'll figure something out. Trust models between users can probably be implemented to spot suspicious bot accounts
It’s not a trivial problem to solve lol
It's definitely not, but on the other side having to address it means we would've reached something like 100k monthly active user, so at least there would be that I guess
I already get accused of being a bot daily because I post stuff that people don't like. Lemmy is gonna get real interesting as it grows. lol
Fuck reddit RIP 2023 for me and its been great.