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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] Zeroxxx@lemmy.id 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Like Lemmy. Full with cross posting bots.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

cross posting bots are a lot less problematic to me than bots designed to mimic human engagement to said cross posts

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy is not even in the ballpark of oom that Reddit and western social media sits in. Lemmy has 40-50k real active users.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

No, you were not supposed to be the bot.

[–] qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bots are a fact of life, unfortunately.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Almost 50% of all internet traffic is bots.