Active users as of June 25, 2023:
- lemmy.world (48k users): 13554 active users
- lemmy.ml (38k users): 4582 active users
- beehaw.org (11k users): 3743 active users
- feddit.de (6.7k users): 2320 active users
- sh.itjust.works (6.5k users): 2167 active users
- lemmy.ca (3.5k users): 1082 active users
Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances!
What is the purpose of bots, other than spam, lemmy tools and 3rd party scrapers (if that’s a thing)?
Propaganda, brigading, post votes manipulation, and once accounts are “established” they could be sold for astroturfing.
I’ve noticed weird vote counts, and sometimes it’s clearly a bug. But do you think a small number of downvotes that make no sense would be bots? Or just trolls?
The weird count on posts is a bug, as for the small number of downvotes, I don’t think they’re bots, not yet, just either people disliking the comment or a few trolls, it doesn’t happen systematically, that’s what bots usually do.
Eventually, to use humans as Duracells
Woah