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[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you say it's mostly bots?

[–] Distributed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hyorvenn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 points 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...

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, stupid that people do stuff like that.

[–] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 1 points 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.