I actually think this is a non-issue , sure it will be a pain for a while but the decentralized model will easily adapt to this IMO. Its not like reddit was immune from bots eh.
An example is how obviously you can spot the bad actors here. I do not think is will be any more challenging indeed I think it will be easier to counter
exactly :-)
Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam ....spaaaammm glorious spam
I have not seen a great deal of evidence of spam bots yet myself
Not sure you can infer that from this chart as I believe it counts active users and contributors so lurkers won't show up, of course will will have a lot of people checking us out. Not that bots won't be an issue in the future they will.
I had exactly the opposite experience, I joined a kbin and a lemmy instance and opened communities in both, definitely found lemmy easier to jump on too, and lemmy for me was more stable by a large chunk , but that might be the instance I am on seems very well run.
Think of it as two types of cheese, both are gorgeous.
Actually lemmy has over half a million total users and Kbin stands at about 50,000 the 37,000 number is just the lemmy.world users
Here is the active users last month curve
It is not just active users , we have gone from under 100 nodes (instances) to over 300 in June alone , I really love the distributed network idea, I could see large sub from reddit running there own instance where they really have control of the destiny of there community.
Super, had not thought of DJ sets as part of a New Music community , shame on me, this is exactly what this is for as well as to showcase individual artists. Great post.
good catch