Almost broke 2.5 million daily total users on Lemmy in the last 24 hours.

Victor Gnarly@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 247 points –
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Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.

So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don't understand the purpose of bots.

Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.

Still don't get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.

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They don't want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area

Thats seems bad. I know some bots are hepful. But 1 million bots seems like they for something nefariously.

Yeah, I hope that people farming them are just trolling the fediverse and don't plan on using them.

Lol trolling is bad. A bot army could make things miserable here.