Lemmy has multiplied it’s number of users (maybe more accurately accounts) in just few days. How much do you think is the percentage of bot accounts? Is Lemmy having problem with bot farming?
Lemmy has multiplied it’s number of users (maybe more accurately accounts) in just few days. How much do you think is the percentage of bot accounts? Is Lemmy having problem with bot farming?
Spin up 50 bots.
Sign them all up for lemmy.
Let accounts interact/age.
Sell accounts to companies who want to advertise as one of the cool kids.
Happened on reddit nonstop.
Any conversation, be it political or commercial. All it takes is something sounding confident, a grain of truth and lots of upvotes to convince people.
That’s why I like seeing downvoted as a red flag people can pay attention to
Pretty much why Reddit removed downvotes I think… brands got tired of users raining downvotes on them for shilling lol.
@GizmoLion @1337tux @TheAngryBad @DerWilliWonka I am on board with this
@realcaseyrollins @GizmoLion @1337tux @DerWilliWonka @TheAngryBad meaning you want to sell fedi accounts to capitalists?
@fu @GizmoLion @1337tux @DerWilliWonka @TheAngryBad I’m not on board with the selling part tbh, but I like the bot idea, it worked for #Reddit like the guy said
I feel like you’re reading a completely different conversation…
@GizmoLion @realcaseyrollins @1337tux @DerWilliWonka @TheAngryBad its not likely, but with how the Fediverse works its possible, whether slow federation between certain servers (for example I frequently will have posts Friendica tells me have posted to 130/135 servers within a minute but those last few can take days or never post at all) also you guys might not both see the same conversation based on who you’ve blocked, or been blocked by, etc. If you ever want to verify, you should be able to view it on their instance (on Kbin this is what is listed under MORE as LINK TO FEDIVERSE)
@realcaseyrollins @GizmoLion @1337tux @DerWilliWonka @TheAngryBad if it’s not a PUBLIC conversation of course you won’t be able to see it on their server if you don’t have an account on that server that is included in the private body (like Friendica’s default of “friends only”)
Looks like you are @ing someone I can’t see.
Well, that’s the first major point against this fediverse business… Who’s going to stick around to have a conversation when everyone’s only getting bits of it? That’s kinda antithetical to discussion…
@GizmoLion @1337tux @TheAngryBad @DerWilliWonka @fu I will! I’m no stranger to clicking external links so I can see full conversations.
Trying to teach my sister @Marbleturtle how so that she can get the hang of it as well lol
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I have some tiny bit of doubts left but at least it does sound like one possible reason for people swarming servers with bots
Except that Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma, so there’s no use in doing any of that here.
Just the same, having a post history and upvote history lends credibility to the “opinion” of the brand.