Was on the other site when a commenter pointed out a response that and like 5 or 6 replies to that comment that were all bots. I am finally getting exposed to the concept of dead internet theory. So, how prevalent are bots on a place like lemmy? Are there natural safeguards against bots? I’m not an engineer and probably need a dumbed down explanation. But I did make it to lemmy! So I’ve got that going for me…
I don’t think that it’s super prevalent. Most are labeled, but the lemmy users seem to really hate bots and report them very quickly, even false positives. Unlabeled bot accounts usually get banned pretty quickly.