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[–] 106 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That’s just the consequence of being popular. Lemmy isn’t impervious or even resistant to this

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And of insanely easy account creation. You didn't even need an email.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reddit doesn't require email either.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was talking about reddit. Lemmy, at least the instances i was on, needs manual approval

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don't actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just "some" and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I’d argue it is resistant. Lemmy is federated, which means smaller instances, making it easier to detect this kind of activity. Crime in a city vs crime in a town situation

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Nah, it works for now because no one really tries to spam lemmy. If it gets popular enough companies will pay bot farms to post here and admins want be able to keep up with moderation. Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, and many instances don’t want to defenerate from where almost everyone is, the problem keeps happening…

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