One of the actually funny recurring jokes on Reddit was "everyone on Reddit is a bot except you".
It's becoming less and less funny by the day.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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"... except you, a dog. Because on the internet nobody knows that you're a dog."
so there are no humans on reddit
Tragedy is comedy + time
As shit as Reddit is, there isn't any built in failsafe for Lemmy.
I don't know how it is now but when I joined lemmy every server but .World required like a written paragraph and to wait for an email
oh yeah. every instance I asked to join needed one of those. but I suppose I person could fill that out then let their bot run the account once they're in
It is also the case of asking if an account is a bot account where you can't tell after a quick glance of their history. There are ways of dealing with spam accounts, but there isn't a way to deal with bot accounts that aren't blatant spam.
and also pretty weird captchas, haven't seen those in years
Most Lemmy instances have some admin oversight with regard to registration. Moreover, there are always more instances, including secret instances.
The built in failsafe is federation.
Yeah, bots having the ability to jump instances when they're banned makes us safer from bots
Lemmy also has bots though. Luckily you can block them.
I think it's more fun to stick a tag on them. Depends on the bot of course
wait, like user created bots or did Lemmy specifically make them to inflate the site's userbase?
When someone specifically makes a bot they can mark the account the bot uses as a bot. And you can filter those out.
Of course nothing keeps someone from not marking a bot as a bot.