Needed a pickling mix recipe I remembered only vaguely, but before I navigated to the community that held it, I noticed how horrifically botted the front page was. I did a cursory account check of the posts on the top sort and found that nearly half of the front page was comprised of bot posts or bot boosted accounts. Which is, under no uncertain terms, horrific.
Lemmy has its issues, but how someone could see this toxic landfill and choose to plant their flag there, I don’t understand. Glad to be amongst the people who cannot tolerate this.
You know moderators use bots to generate posts and vote up or down replies ? The karma points required to post on most subreddits are so high only the mods can post. And the moderators on Lemmy do the same, only they can only lock out users from their own sub. Reddit auto-generates user names when using Gmail or an Android phone.
I’m not making a statement that Reddit isn’t mostly bots. I’m just saying auto-generated names isn’t proof enough that there are.