Do we really need these many posting bots? - eviltoast

Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.

At first it didn’t bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.

I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.

  • El Barto@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is no karma on Lemmy, though. So they are appealing to good ol’fashioned spamming.

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      1 year ago

      I mean… There is… It’s just hidden by the default UI. It’s exposed in voyager… You have 904 comment karma for example (and no post karma).