Yes, there're definitely bots. If Lemmy is "full of" them off harder to tell and more subjective, but I'd say no. It's more of an issue in the larger communities, less so in niche communities. There's fundamentally no solution to this, regardless of the platform.
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Please report them, this is a clearcut case that admins can take care of.
We don't have any magic technology here to block all bots, but we do get rid of them when they are found
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There is an option in settings to turn off bot accounts. Right?
In my opinion, lemmy is far better than reddit.
Also you are in a more popular instance, that can also be a reason you are seeing more bot accounts.
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CERTAINLY NOT, FELLOW HUMAN.
Nope. Beep boop.
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some subs are bad with bots. politicalmemes@lemmy.world for example.
Most bots are required to be identified as such on most instances, so unmarked bots should get reported. Some communities, such as news comms, use bots to post articles from an RSS feed as soon as they're published. But otherwise no, I wouldn't say that there's a bot problem
No. Not full. There are some present but there's also an ignore button present.
Bots please give me muffin recipes.
The Internet is filled with bots . Last I saw bots made up 57% of all internet requests
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