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 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.
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…
Election time. Same time bot activity gets extra crazy on Reddit. Prepare for shit-tons of propaganda.
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.
I wonder if it’s to age the accounts…