I can’t wait until we get bots that repeat catchphrases or tell you when your post contains all the letters of the alphabet! That was the best part of reddit!
The other day, someone posted a thread about instances that had just started suddenly having tens of thousands of members. That was the first I saw on the topic.
I went to one of the first ones on the list (k6qw or something like that) and it was a brand new instance with no communities, one post with one response, and 20,000 members.
So it’s safe to assume they’re either bots or red lectroids (have to see if they’re all named John).
I bet my ass it’s a bot army being built by reddit admins to flood Lemmy and destroy it - taking down their competition.
That or election interference accounts for 2024.
Are bots basically scraping Reddit and reconstituting entire subs on Lemmy?
I said something about how it should be done a whole back, half jokingly.
I’m glad someone was serious.
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…
I wonder if it’s to age the accounts…
It would be funny if there is some dude out there making bots for the sole purpose of selling them off for bettlejeuicing.
!beetlejuicing@lemm.ee has been created.
