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There has been a big surge in bot accounts
https://lemmy.ml/post/1391903
Basically many of the newer instances allowed sign ups with no bot protection
This is why we can't have nice things and need to deal with CAPTCHA and email verification etc..
The only bots I've seen are posting news, TIL, etc. No annoying bits so far.
I have a crosspost bot, I'm mainly testing it and it's purpose is to use reddit as link agregator to help small communities get some content going.
It only posts external links, never OC nor a link to reddit.
Also in my case the bot will get one post no older than 5 hours every hour, to prevent flooding with posts.
Eventually we will see thr shirts ones...