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[–] Protegee9850 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

[–] dystop 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As much as I'd love to think that it's all users, the reality is that it was partially bots.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200

[–] kinther 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)

[–] dystop 19 points 2 years ago

It's possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It's essentially an arms race.

[–] drphungky 10 points 2 years ago

It's going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we're comparing apples to apples by including them in the "members" counts.

[–] Tigerfishy 8 points 2 years ago

There was also just a huge dump of mods off some big subs, and a post about it on Lemmy with a link...I had been thinking about coming here specifically when I left Reddit, and the mod dump coupled with the link was the perfect opportunity, probably not just for me

Also yay, my first ever comment on my new news platform