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Was on the other site when a commenter pointed out a response that and like 5 or 6 replies to that comment that were all bots. I am finally getting exposed to the concept of dead internet theory. So, how prevalent are bots on a place like lemmy? Are there natural safeguards against bots? I'm not an engineer and probably need a dumbed down explanation. But I did make it to lemmy! So I've got that going for me...

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Labeled bots that just post content?

There was/is some but I blocked them long ago.

Bots pretending to be humans in the comment section?

Nothing believable, it works on reddit because most posts are reposts so the bots just recreate the old comment chain. It looks like an authentic human conversation because it was. But even on reddit I doubt there are many bots who can respond logically and not just recycle whatever got up voted last time. Because the boys are also up voting each other and reinforcing it

That's "dead internet" once the bots are more active and outweigh humans on the algorithm, it doesn't matter what people like, just who paid the most for bots.

Then the internet becomes a giant waste of electricity that people just stop using.