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[–] CustodialTeapot 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Bots. Endless bots where you don't know if the comment or post is a real person. Sign ups need a barrier to filter out bots.

[–] solarview 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bots can be deselected in settings, can't they? Although they are selected by default.

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

What do you mean? You can turn off seeing bots here?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can but only if the bot account has actually been set as a bot account in its account settings page. Naturally, malicious actors aren't going to out their own bot accounts by setting them as bot accounts if they're looking to do something like astroturf or manipulate opinions through voting.

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