• Distributed@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.

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        1 year ago

        The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?

          Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…

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            1 year ago

            Maybe. If the bots have been created by opportunism during the vulnerability, they may still be “dormant” until their owner find something to do with it. So I wouldn’t be surprise they are not doing anything yet.

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      I also suspect they’re all bots.

      I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.