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Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows
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Exactly what the big platforms want, and exactly what's different about Lemmy. Low-volume, high-quality interactions
You realize that the only reason Lemmy hasn't become so enshitified is because the user base is too small for the corpos to seriously target it yet. The day Lemmy has more than a million users the army of bots will not be too far behind.
It's not enshittification, but there's a bunch of crappy rss bots on lemmy reposting low quality content pulled from various feeds. I feel like they've been abandoned and left to run creating internet litter around this site. I've started blocking them because I'm not against bots as a concept, but poorly written or with bad sources they can get pretty tiring. One of the things I appreciate about diggs $5 account fee is that it'd hopefully limit the amount of trolls/spam on the site.