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Is Lemmy also full of bots like Reddit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nerdhd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just found a account where it's comments are all the same stuff over and over again. It seems like spam bot. I thought only reddit had a bot problem but maybe Lemmy has it too?

Here's the account: https://lemmy.world/u/circuitai

How did I find it

So, for those wondering how I found it:

I first come across that account on https://lemmy.world/c/BestOfAi

Here's the comment that caught my attention:

https://lemmy.world/comment/25386296

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Most bots are required to be identified as such on most instances, so unmarked bots should get reported. Some communities, such as news comms, use bots to post articles from an RSS feed as soon as they're published. But otherwise no, I wouldn't say that there's a bot problem