Not sure what’s going on here, thousands of bots just subscribed with no new posts or comments
source
https://reddit.com/comments/1ft95xz
jumped to 5k members
I wonder, could it be related to this?
Reddit says it will review requests to make communities private or NSFW within 24 hours. For smaller or newer communities — under 5,000 members or less than 30 days old — requests will be approved automatically.
Ding ding ding. Make it technically possible to private the sub, but then add 5000 bots to every new sub so it’s not actually possible.
Conspiracy theory: Spez is orchestrating some sort of pump & dump scheme.
I mean, as long as the bots click on ads, everyone is happy? Riiight?
r/TheDahmerCase has been banned from Reddit
Yes, we reported that. We’ve done nothing wrong, only noticed the 2500 sudden members today and someone else had the same issue today and then their sub was also banned, so it’s not just us. And we were both banned for ‘spam’. I think Reddit has been hacked.
Reddit has negative respect towards the small communities, eh. The same ones that used to make that place fun, in contrast with overgrown shitholes like r/[we try to be]funny.
Lemmy is way more susceptable to bots than Reddit is, we just don’t see it as much because we’re a lot smaller. But if Lemmy grows, it’ll become a major problem for us too.
I already get accused of being a bot daily because I post stuff that people don’t like. Lemmy is gonna get real interesting as it grows. lol
