@MicroWave
There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.
Itâs a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we wonât have a correct number.
We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots donât post (yet)
This is a bot made to repost from reddit to generate content for remade subs, thought i donât know if thatâs the right thing to do, itâs not made purely to spam communities afaik
I have no problem with bots in general (there were some really cool novelty ones on reddit, as well as moderation ones, etc). When large amounts of accounts are created for bots, it seems a bit shady, however. Will those be used to push political opinions and guerilla marketing as Lemmy gets bigger, or did someone just create a bunch of accounts to simulate conversations using an LLM?