• Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you’re doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      When will the bot situation be under control?

      I’m not denying the bot situation. These posts are for record keeping, and people in this thread seem aware of the bot situation. We need to get more eyes on this.

      You’re welcome to start a conversation about how to solve the bot issue. I’d love to participate.

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      If you can’t use critical thinking skills to analyze these numbers and understand bots are included, idk what to tell you bro. We can’t censor the world cause of a few dumb people.

      With that said user activity, number of posts, number of comments submitted per day would be a nice metric to look at.

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        1 year ago

        I got a kick out of knowing he had millions of fuck /u/spez tags. He must know he’s a bellend before being rich. His disaster bunker article was absolutely hilarious.

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          If only that article was more popular, it really explains why he’s such a little child regarding the whole API fiasco.

      • mcpheeandme@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Lol it’s seriously crazy how much less active this place felt a couple of weeks ago. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be someone who was here years ago.

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          1 year ago

          Right!? Even daily it seems like there’s more and more activity. I’m lovin itTM

          • OptimusPrime@lemmy.moonling.nl
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            1 year ago

            Indeed. It’s getting better and better. Which means people are posting better quality stuff over here. “He who shall not be named” feels now a little weird when visiting it.

            It feels old.

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    1 year ago

    Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don’t know what I mean it was just a thought.

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    1 year ago

    I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.

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    It’s mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?

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      I’m not a bot, I used to post on Reddit only occasionally, (I was more of a lurker) and I only accessed it through the Apollo app. I strongly believe in the concept of decentralized platforms, and Apollo made Reddit more user-friendly by streamlining the tools, and reducing the number of ads. I recently joined Lemmy a few days ago and I already feel a surge of energy from enthusiastic migrant users like myself. If I thought my increased involvement here would contribute to meaningful discussions within the community, I will try to be more engaged. I hope that the influx of reddit users, including myself, can provide the boost that Lemmy needed without overwhelming the ‘instances’ themselves.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not a bot

        That’s exactly what a bot would say, a-ha!

        But no seriously, I hope there’s enough of us here to make a meaningful difference; enough to give the internet a new ‘front page’.

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      I’ve been posting like a madman. I hope to kickstart some activity. If this place looks halfway attractive on July 1st, it should bring in enough new posters from 3PA to make more communities self sustaining.

      I had to leave behind a few communities that were small even on reddit, and hope to rebuild them better here.

      • Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, having enough activity is the only way we can make this place a viable Reddit alternative. That, and good third-party apps for a better mobile experience than Reddit. That alone could give the platform a serious edge, especially since 3PA users were some of the most active people on Reddit.

    • self_comprehensive@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I came here four days ago and I’ve been commenting and voting on everything I see. I haven’t made any new posts but I’ve been pretty active otherwise.

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          Honestly, if these instances don’t get their act together, I’d vote on my instance to defederate from it.

          I’m usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.

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            My thought were the same way about not wanting to call for defederation, but after thinking about it and owning an instance of my own now, I realize that that is the whole point. Instance owners can block entire instances from federating with them. If every instance blocks an instance that is a bad actor then they literally can’t federate with anyone and that solves the issue.

          • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.

      • lemme_at_it@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Many were probably set up expressly for one user. They may be just newbies who followed an install guide but without any clue about how to administer a server. Is there no way to contact these owners? Refreshing a user dB is simple.

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    1 year ago

    I realized yesterday that i haven’t been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It’s refreshing.

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    1 year ago

    Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.

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    1 year ago

    Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see the fediverse grow, but if it’s overrun with bots… no one will want to stick around.

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        1 year ago

        There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.

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          1 year ago

          The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them

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            1 year ago

            Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?

            Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…

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      Reddit’s mostly bots too, and the rest are scroll zombies. We just need to hope that people who generate content and discussion show up too; just a few thousand would be enough to get the ball rolling.