Hola all!

Joined lem a week ago. So far I’m really happy that this is a slow community. It’s not hyper-consumer news and I don’t get to see 500 new posts about people punching each other or what trump did like 10 minutes ago.

Just wondering from some of the comments, some people either feel like really drone minded or having a hard time to accept the sun is blue, just because.

Makes me wonder some of them are actually bots. Not saying this as in derogatory way. Compared to Reddit, how is the bot situation on lemmy? How often the data is being scraped off and used to manipulate people here?

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
    13·
    9 hours ago

    I don’t notice any botting at all. There’s no karma to farm on Lemmy and there’s no account needed to scrape it so that might be part of it.

    I wonder if there’s even any incentive to do botting on Lemmy.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      9 hours ago

      There’d be no incentive for individuals, but the moment it becomes active enough there’ll be incentive for political astroturfing.

      I do see some of that, and notice that basically any topic will randomly devolve into accusations of tankieism and corporate bootlicking, but I dont think bots yet.