• Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My guesstimate is that Reddit — with BotDefense up and running — was at least 20% bots posting articles and then bots having conversations about those bot-posted articles. Without BotDefense? Yikes.

    • TeoTwawki@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Man the bots aren’t even good at hiding they are bots anymore.

      Bots

      That was just spammed in a news article over and over for hours.