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)

[–] Wolfiexo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just check https://lemmit.online/c/itookapicture . Sadly only bot posts

[–] nero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nice try, bot!

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I have no problem with bots in general (there were some really cool novelty ones on reddit, as well as moderation ones, etc). When large amounts of accounts are created for bots, it seems a bit shady, however. Will those be used to push political opinions and guerilla marketing as Lemmy gets bigger, or did someone just create a bunch of accounts to simulate conversations using an LLM?

[–] zamboniman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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