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Ahh bots, the bane of the internet.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Can anyone explain what the point is of creating an instance and filling it with bots? Seems like it just costs money and time but with no benefit? Is it for a future spam campaign?
Is it for a future spam campaign?
Yes.
Count me in.
Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.
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My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.
My first as well. Been on Reddit for a long enough to remember the DIGG exodus when they killed themselves. Interesting to see it happen again.
It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?
I think it will be similar to reddit, where a small percentage of people produce content while the majority lurk. I used to lurk a lot on reddit, but I hope to change that here (I feel it's important to be active to help drive activity).
That's going to be any platform, really. I feel like there might be more content posters here literally for the reason of boosting it and hopefully having a competitor on equal grounds to reddit. Right now, reddit is still winning in content and features, but it obviously has been around for longer and has a massive user base. It will take time, but with enough motivation provided by the despise of spez, it's possible. I don't think it will take down reddit, but it will make reddit no longer the only option.
I came here four days ago and I've been commenting and voting on everything I see. I haven't made any new posts but I've been pretty active otherwise.
Super important to make this place a viable alternative, rather than just another graveyard.
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Yeehaw!
Any idea why I can't create a new post? It just spins forever the past 2 days.
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It's a good thing but also might not be good if hosting costs become unsustainable. I hope we can cope.
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A million of us, a million of us!