See for example, @nehare@lemmy.world. Account is four hours old, 52 articles posted, zero comments/engagement with the community. Will probably be gone by tomorrow.

Just the other day a bot showed up (galacticWaffle) that was making long, engaging comments on pretty much every post on .World. No one would have known it was a bot if it hadn’t been posting an impossible number of comments per minute. A lot of us engaged with it until people started following it around calling it out. Felt bad man.

I think people just need to know that you are a person before they trust you as a new neighbor. The norm lately is for brand new accounts not to be.