• Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see the fediverse grow, but if it’s overrun with bots… no one will want to stick around.

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        1 year ago

        There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.

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          1 year ago

          The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them

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            1 year ago

            Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?

            Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…

      • LostRedditor@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I also suspect they’re all bots.

        I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.

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      1 year ago

      Reddit’s mostly bots too, and the rest are scroll zombies. We just need to hope that people who generate content and discussion show up too; just a few thousand would be enough to get the ball rolling.