this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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The other day, someone posted a thread about instances that had just started suddenly having tens of thousands of members. That was the first I saw on the topic.
I went to one of the first ones on the list (k6qw or something like that) and it was a brand new instance with no communities, one post with one response, and 20,000 members.
So it's safe to assume they're either bots or red lectroids (have to see if they're all named John).
I bet my ass it's a bot army being built by reddit admins to flood Lemmy and destroy it - taking down their competition.
That or election interference accounts for 2024.
The bot wars are going to be so absolutely not epic.
Flood how? They would immediately be defederated.
I don't understand why it's not already happening tbh. What are we waiting for?