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What’s with all the bot accounts reposting Reddit shit? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see lots of accounts like “bot” and “bOt” whatever. They’re just reposting hundreds of thousands of Reddit posts.

This is garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's kind of dead without them, and you can block the annoying ones. I look forward to growth that wouldn't need content reposted.

[–] mitchacho74 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this, it sucks but it's a chicken and the egg problem, platform needs people to make content, but you need content for people to join

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So that’s why we reached a million posts. Fakery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is there any way to filter them out instead of blocking subs that are currently being flooded? Some of the subs are ones I would want to join, but don’t want the bot spam they’re currently getting