Was on the other site when a commenter pointed out a response that and like 5 or 6 replies to that comment that were all bots. I am finally getting exposed to the concept of dead internet theory. So, how prevalent are bots on a place like lemmy? Are there natural safeguards against bots? I'm not an engineer and probably need a dumbed down explanation. But I did make it to lemmy! So I've got that going for me...

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I'd like to know the answer to this, too. As far as I can tell so far, the only protection is that lemmy is kinda small and not really appealing to bot on.

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