What’s the point of paying bots to join Lemmy instances?

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I wonder that too since according to present statistics (the-federation.info/platform/73) there’s over 1.2M Lemmy accounts. The 6mo active users count is a little over 40k. Now I know many of those may be lurkers or people like me who have logins on other instances, but a good number of those would have to be bot accounts. So what are they laying in wait for? Could be shameless promotion and upvoting, but I’m not seeing any of that yet. Hope we’re not in for a shitstorm.