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 can’t really tell the difference between bots and idiots who are pushing an agenda. is there really functionally any difference for the end user?
it’s quite different from the perceptive of an admin, for sure.
Dumb and shitty and even innocuous content can proliferate way faster with bots I’d assume. It’s just making the whole experience lower quality and bums me out. To have been on early Internet and to see what most of it is now. I guess I’m just old person yelling at clouds age now.