Not sure what’s going on here, thousands of bots just subscribed with no new posts or comments
source
https://reddit.com/comments/1ft95xz
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.
You’re probably right, that’s crazy
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
Conspiracy theory: Spez is orchestrating some sort of pump & dump scheme.
Alwayshasbeen.meme
That could really be it
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.
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
!3dprinting@lemmy.world has 1800 monthly active users
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.
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?
Especially memes, tbh. You can see the bots more easily when they try for humor, makes the reddit communities for it feel so uncanny.
Maaannn my Masters Dissertation was on Distributed SQL, 25 years ago.