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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

The question is: what percentage of those users are bots? And does it matter?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The way I've heard of things in federated instances, if one instance becomes bot filled and toxic, then other instances will unfederate them. It makes it worthwhile for mods of that instance to run a healthy server.

There's a bot running on one instance now that identifies itself as such and is reposting content from reddit with links going to the original article. These sorts of bots I can accept.

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