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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you go to Reddit which is more popular for bots certain subs are completely filled with spam and votebots. r/worldnews is like a giant circle of pro IDF bots jerking eachother off. LSF became a shitshow too.

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's with a fairly active mod team too. Imagine the spam if there were no controls.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the mods are complicit