Needed a pickling mix recipe I remembered only vaguely, but before I navigated to the community that held it, I noticed how horrifically botted the front page was. I did a cursory account check of the posts on the top sort and found that nearly half of the front page was comprised of bot posts or bot boosted accounts. Which is, under no uncertain terms, horrific.

Lemmy has its issues, but how someone could see this toxic landfill and choose to plant their flag there, I don’t understand. Glad to be amongst the people who cannot tolerate this.

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[–] [S] 11 points 5 months ago (13 children)

It’s account age, percentage of high karma posts, and AI callouts in their most recent post that I looked for. I think the bottom of my pic has an autogen that seemed human on first glance.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    What's an ai callout? I looked up snack samurai based on you underlining them above and didn't see anything odd other than the account was 1month old.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    1 month, many back to back incredibly high karma posts on samurai. Boofing bleach might be able to help them Scrape by.

    AI callouts, as in accusations by users, which I corroborated to the best of my personal ability, of being an AI managed account.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    High Karma sounds like a bot army. I see a smaller version on Lemmy where some users, no matter how deep in a thread, always get 4 upvotes instantly.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

    If you know the lemmy users’ names, you can check for yourself whether they’re voting themselves up. Lemvotes.org. No hiding it here.

    Edit: unless they’re .ml. .ml blocked the instance responsible for this

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Bot armies aren't users directly voting themselves. It's a bunch of random IPs that are owned or paid to vote.

    How does Lemvotes show if you upvoted yourself? I just looked at it and it doesn't even show the IP of the voter which would cover the easiest abuse (multiple accounts on the same PC).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    It doesn’t show any info of that sort, just account vote histories to reference. People here generally aren’t careful enough to hide it well.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    voting themselves up. Lemvotes.org. No hiding it here.

    Are you saying there's a way to upvote yourself multiple times from your own account? Because Reddit doesn't allow that at all.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Not as far as I know, no. Just multiple accounts, same as most websites.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Then how does Lemmyvotes show self upvoting? The accounts that upvote could be followers.

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