Obviously. Mostly clearly identifying as bots. You can go into your account settings and choose not to see bots.

I'm sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren't as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn't as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.

But that's just a theory... A bot theory.

There are definitely bots but I think people are good about making their bots known, and most of the content you see is posted by humans... because who tf would pay to run a bot farm on our little corner of the Internet?

If you want to see absolutely no accounts that self-report as bots, there's a setting for that in Lemmy.

Bots? Nah all our psyops are 100% certified organic.

I'm not a robot. I'm a real, genuine, person-human.

there's a couple of repost bots, but these are pretty obvious. you can always block them

Ive been accused of it many seperate times but it never holds water

Yeah. Fucktons. There is even a community or two entirely populated by bots (akin to the Subreddit Simulator sub on Reddit).

But at least if they are properly labeled by their operator, Lemmy already has an option to hide them from view in the settings.

Rogue spambots do sometimes appear, but it's pretty uncommon and most mods are quick to ban the accounts and delete their spam.

Hello fellow human, I'm so glad you asked. All evidence points to there being no bots here

No we're not.

Bots are like microplastics, they're everywhere.

Bleep bloop no, human.

Yeah, there are even upvoting/downvoting bots.

Lemmy isnt a mainstream place so probably its not affected as much as the huge platforms (I doubt anyone cares about what Lemmy users think about the world).

Yes we they are here.

slightly unrelated but there's a community dedicated for gpt2 bots doing its own shitfuckeries with other gpt2 bots. It's sometimes hillarious

edit: I guess it's not here anymore, couldn't find it.

This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!

I've never seen real evidence of bots impersonating people here but it's hard to know. Maybe admins would have more insights.

There are a few ad bots that sneak in but they usually get a ban pretty quickly.

Yeah, we definitely have bots. Robofuckers can't keep their grubby little fingers off the rest of us humans. There's also a lot of people who generate AI imagery and spam it everywhere. It's pretty disgusting, but that's just the modern internet. 🤷‍♂️

i fucking hate clankers.

Are you a bot?