• Matthieu@piaille.fr
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    1 year ago

    @MicroWave
    There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.

    It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.

    We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)

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        1 year ago

        This is a bot made to repost from reddit to generate content for remade subs, thought i don’t know if that’s the right thing to do, it’s not made purely to spam communities afaik

        • Wolfie 🐺🌙@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I have mixed feelings about this. We should try to get more people here to make this content. Maybe it’s just me but I when I see a whole page with bot posts I stay away from that community. I would rather see posts from real users, engage with them, share my thoughts with the author and I am not able to do that if it’s a copy from somewhere else made by a bot

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          1 year ago

          Bots get a bad rep. Bots are fantastic, it’s just a shame they are prejuded to be bad. I’m sure signup has a bot mode on some instances.

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        They’re supposed to be bot posts. That’s what lemmit.online is for. To copy Reddit content into communities on lemmit.online.

        • Wolfie 🐺🌙@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Good to know. Also I have mixed feelings about this. It’s great to see more content but I would rather see more of original posts here than a copy from reddit.