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Is Lemmy or the fediverse doing anything about the recent surge in users, that could possibly be bots? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been watching over the recent surge in fediverse users for about a week now. Last week, it was climbing what i would call naturally, organically. Now for the last couple days, its been like 350k in the last 2 days.

Love to see the growth of users, but these have to be bot created accounts. I dont want this to be bot infested community. I see the value in bots when used correctly, but lets be real - general population and bots could ruin this community.

Is there anything planned? Is there work from some third party to throw off the "stableness" of Lemmy / fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What are the bot accounts being used for? I haven't noticed any posts made by bots (unless you guys are all ChatGPT and I'm the only human here)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sometimes I wonder if the people I'm talking to are even real humans. Their responses can be so totally out of left field.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered the possibility that everyone on the internet is fucking crazy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, maybe. Depersonalization does seem to do weird things to people.

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