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• papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are bots actually prevalent here? I love me some Lemmy, but boy are they scraping the bottom of the barrel by targeting us and not reddit.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are bots actually prevalent here?

    Yeah, they’re here, they’re also on Reddit.

    They go wherever the people are at, so they can train, inflate user population, and influence opinions.

    It costs them almost nothing to be at multiple places, at the end of the day it’s all text to be parsed and people to manipulate.

    Actually, usually when I see someone questioning if bots exist I think of that as an actual bot trying influence people away from thinking about bots, considering that bots are all over the place at this point, it’s weird to see someone deny/question that.

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    • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well first off, a shill could be a person, and not a bot.

      Ah, when you put quotation marks around “person” I’d assumed you implied they were bots.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah, when you put quotation marks around “person” I’d assumed you implied they were bots.

        Yeah, sorry, I mean it both as bots as well as shills. Basically a bad actor and not an honest participant, human or otherwise.

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