Been watching over the recent surge in fediverse users for about a week now. Last week, it was climbing what i would call naturally, organically. Now for the last couple days, its been like 350k in the last 2 days.
Love to see the growth of users, but these have to be bot created accounts. I dont want this to be bot infested community. I see the value in bots when used correctly, but lets be real - general population and bots could ruin this community.
Is there anything planned? Is there work from some third party to throw off the “stableness” of Lemmy / fediverse?
there’s no karma to farm. there’s no algorithm to game. the best they can do is spam.
And spamming can be a serious problem for forums such as Lemmy communities
No. They can be used in influence campaigns. They can upvote the posts and comments the controllers want you to see and downvote those they don’t.
Spam’s obvious and can be dealt with. Bots altering what shows up in your feed is impossible to combat as an end user.
In some ways, this shows Lemmy is winning. It means Lemmy’s important enough to start trying to influence. It also means we’re about to go through some interesting times.
wait there isn’t any algorithm that determines what posts are on the front page?
Since you get voted for your score it is not long before you won’t get your total shown in third party interfaces. The feeling of power to dominate social presence is still there.
Already happens. Mlem at least shows it in your user profile.
Spam is bad…