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Typically if you’re gonna deploy a bunch of bots on lemmy, it’s easiest to do via your own instance, which is fairly easy to filter out.
Luckily the federated aspect will help with this a little bit.
its nice it wont spread like cancer, like with reddit, wheres its mostly political botting by RU.
Right, but you can also create accounts on different instances, so not really protected. Actually I think it’s very difficult to really filter bots when they’re done right, especially in times where LLMs start to be increasingly more popular.