• Discoslugs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?

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      1 year ago

      Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.

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        1 year ago

        So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don’t understand the purpose of bots.

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          Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.

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            1 year ago

            Still don’t get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.

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              Sure, but do you like ads that masquerade as posts? Because if you do then you’ll love the delicious taste of Diet Coke, grab one today! (16900 upvotes)

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                Oh boy, I, for one, love the taste of Diet Coke, the perfect refreshing drink when you and your family watch my new movie, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.

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              They don’t want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area

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              Yeah, but this can give you popularity and attention that people crave and it will be pretty damn useful in scamming others too.

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        1 year ago

        Thats seems bad. I know some bots are hepful. But 1 million bots seems like they for something nefariously.

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              1 year ago

              Trolling in the sense making people freak out while not doing anything with those bots. That’s what I’m hoping for although it’s improbable.

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                I was thinking more racist transphobic trolling aided by an amry of lurking upvoting bots…but ya know.

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          If it’s anything like Reddit’s bots, they’ll probably post copy-pasted comments to gain upvotes, then they’ll start spamming advertisements and scams once they have a good amount.

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            1 year ago

            I’m just afraid that these bots are bascially here to sabotage lemmy.

            The fediverse is so awesome, there is no way big social media corps can play nice in the long term.

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                1 year ago

                Yup. I hope the federated model can defned against these things. But im really nervous.

                Lemmy is so cool rn.