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lemmy.world leads the pack as the #1 most active instance, outpacing the next 5 non-bot instances combined! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Active users as of June 25, 2023:

lemmy.world (48k users): 13554 active users
lemmy.ml (38k users): 4582 active users
beehaw.org (11k users): 3743 active users
feddit.de (6.7k users): 2320 active users
sh.itjust.works (6.5k users): 2167 active users
lemmy.ca (3.5k users): 1082 active users

Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances!

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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

What is the purpose of bots, other than spam, lemmy tools and 3rd party scrapers (if that’s a thing)?

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

Propaganda, brigading, post votes manipulation, and once accounts are "established" they could be sold for astroturfing.

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

I've noticed weird vote counts, and sometimes it's clearly a bug. But do you think a small number of downvotes that make no sense would be bots? Or just trolls?

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

The weird count on posts is a bug, as for the small number of downvotes, I don't think they're bots, not yet, just either people disliking the comment or a few trolls, it doesn't happen systematically, that's what bots usually do.