Not sure what's going on here, thousands of bots just subscribed with no new posts or comments
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Conspiracy theory: Spez is orchestrating some sort of pump & dump scheme.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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I mean, as long as the bots click on ads, everyone is happy? Riiight?
Companies paying for bots so that other companies pay them for bot clicks. This is truly the worst timeline.
That could really be it
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r/TheDahmerCase has been banned from Reddit
Yes, we reported that. We've done nothing wrong, only noticed the 2500 sudden members today and someone else had the same issue today and then their sub was also banned, so it's not just us. And we were both banned for 'spam'. I think Reddit has been hacked.
Reddit has negative respect towards the small communities, eh. The same ones that used to make that place fun, in contrast with overgrown shitholes like r/[we try to be]funny.
Reddit is only good for massively reposted memes at this point. Any real communities with any semblance of civility are better on Lemmy, in my opinion, thanks to Reddit's policy of shooting themselves in the foot.
Edit: even with memes, I've found Lemmy to be the better option.
I want /r/3dprinting ! The communities on Lemmy are dead
Dead communities or Bot communities. Pick one.
There's a few smaller communities on reddit that I like that don't have a presence here, which is unfortunate. I feel ya.
How open are the mods of those communities to promote the Lemmy alternatives?
I have no idea, but I just assume at this point that even mentioning Lemmy on that site would result in either a ban or a shadowban from Spez's lackeys.
And I want r/forhire. At least something like r/slave labour. As with r/3dprinting, Lemmy alternatives are dead. I was told to look for some alternative at Mastodon but I'm not a microblogging person, feeling much better here.
Especially memes, tbh. You can see the bots more easily when they try for humor, makes the reddit communities for it feel so uncanny.
jumped to 5k members
I wonder, could it be related to this?
Reddit says it will review requests to make communities private or NSFW within 24 hours. For smaller or newer communities — under 5,000 members or less than 30 days old — requests will be approved automatically.
Ding ding ding. Make it technically possible to private the sub, but then add 5000 bots to every new sub so it’s not actually possible.
I'm sure the growth was completely organic. /s
You're probably right, that's crazy
Maaannn my Masters Dissertation was on Distributed SQL, 25 years ago.
Lemmy is way more susceptable to bots than Reddit is, we just don't see it as much because we're a lot smaller. But if Lemmy grows, it'll become a major problem for us too.
Indeed, but then we'll figure something out. Trust models between users can probably be implemented to spot suspicious bot accounts
but then we’ll figure something out.
It’s not a trivial problem to solve lol
It's definitely not, but on the other side having to address it means we would've reached something like 100k monthly active user, so at least there would be that I guess
Fuck reddit RIP 2023 for me and its been great.