• ZarosOP
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    3511 months ago

    I’ve been seeing some of that, but there are apparently also a ton of bots being created for who knows what reason and that’s spooky. (it made the user count jump up in hundreds of thousands) Can’t say I know much about that, but I’d imagine it’ll cause some issues sooner than later…

    • Chainweasel
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      3911 months ago

      Election time. Same time bot activity gets extra crazy on Reddit. Prepare for shit-tons of propaganda.

    • andrew
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      1511 months ago

      I had to manage some auto registered bot accounts on my test instance. They didn’t do anything yet but it was pretty obvious they weren’t real. Randomly generated usernames and all created within a minute.

      • Synapse
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        611 months ago

        Hey! I always use randomly generated user names and I am a real human that enjoy real human things, like wearing socks and dink liquids.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Reddit accounts are being sold online all the time.

      Creating bots is easier early on, when the securities don’t exist yet. Creating an army of account is currently cheap, but may be less so in the future. They are just betting that their army of accounts are going to be valuable in the future.

      • Chainweasel
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        711 months ago

        Selling Reddit accounts relies heavily on karma though, which Lemmy doesn’t publicly keep track of. It’s more likely they’ll be used to push spam or disinformation.