• Matthieu
    10•1 year ago

    @MicroWave
    There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.

    It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.

    We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        This is a bot made to repost from reddit to generate content for remade subs, thought i don’t know if that’s the right thing to do, it’s not made purely to spam communities afaik

        • LUHGEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Bots get a bad rep. Bots are fantastic, it’s just a shame they are prejuded to be bad. I’m sure signup has a bot mode on some instances.

          • @[email protected]English
            -1•1 year ago

            I have no problem with bots in general (there were some really cool novelty ones on reddit, as well as moderation ones, etc). When large amounts of accounts are created for bots, it seems a bit shady, however. Will those be used to push political opinions and guerilla marketing as Lemmy gets bigger, or did someone just create a bunch of accounts to simulate conversations using an LLM?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        They’re supposed to be bot posts. That’s what lemmit.online is for. To copy Reddit content into communities on lemmit.online.

        • Wolfie 🐺🌙English
          1•1 year ago

          Good to know. Also I have mixed feelings about this. It’s great to see more content but I would rather see more of original posts here than a copy from reddit.