Not necessarily posting images right off the bat. It’s suspect but not certain. I was kind of being a dick there. But rattling off hot question posts in their first month on ask lemmy? Yeah that’s 100% farm behavior
• posting exclusively in the one main meme community,
• the post of a single political-pretending-not-to-be political meme (this one), and
• the exactly 2 comments made ever,
are all also very suspect, many bots act in this exact way, and then abandon the account for a couple months to let it age. It seems fishy to me too.
But it is very possible that it is just someone overenthusiastic, and new to the fediverse, so let’s not take up arms, better to let a few bots slip than make real people bounce away I think.
Let’s see at least if they respond, or abandon the account, to judge.
Yeah, there is a pretty big number of new bot accounts all the time. They are most often used to post propaganda and reactionary bait, to tire people out.
That’s a small part of the reason reddit went to shit, it’s now more bots than people.
That’s why you’ll see many people here telling you to “act like a person”. Most people here don’t want Lemmy to be a place for us to just consume content. It’s not about the memes. Whoever wants an unending stream of memes to pass their time, can just go to insta, and scroll to their hearts’ content.
The memes and the posting, are sorta meant to be part of a discussion, like posting your opinion on things, via memes. What you say, is important. Like how the comments in this post here are saying, politically, that “normal” is actually “angry”, due to where we are in the world right now.
Edit:
Just to make it clear in case I was being negative, you posting, posting anything, whether it’s things people agree with, things that are just fun, or even things people might disagree with, is great!
Your mindset of bringing content in so the communities are alive, is very good! Just try to leave some time, for people to discuss the post in the comments. Talk about it with each other, make up their minds.
Think about it as if every post you make, is a room. You have to let people walk in, look around, talk to each other, and leave.
If you make an art gallery with 50 new rooms a day, people won’t want to come see your gallery as much, because there’s too much stuff, and not enough time to understand it.
I respectfully disagree. Majority of people are lurkers and commentators. Most don’t create content. If there is no content they just go back to reddit. Memes community - yeah maybe there is already enough content, but others are just flat out 1 post a day, it’s bad.
Not necessarily posting images right off the bat. It’s suspect but not certain. I was kind of being a dick there. But rattling off hot question posts in their first month on ask lemmy? Yeah that’s 100% farm behavior
For the record,
• the burst-posting (3 images at a time),
• generic memes,
• account in one of the biggest instances,
• posting exclusively in the one main meme community,
• the post of a single political-pretending-not-to-be political meme (this one), and
• the exactly 2 comments made ever,
are all also very suspect, many bots act in this exact way, and then abandon the account for a couple months to let it age. It seems fishy to me too.
But it is very possible that it is just someone overenthusiastic, and new to the fediverse, so let’s not take up arms, better to let a few bots slip than make real people bounce away I think.
Let’s see at least if they respond, or abandon the account, to judge.
You’re probably right. I’m pretty sure now I did this exact thing, like I wanted to make sure there was a post on both 196 communities every day.
Sorry for being hasty, @[email protected].
do you guys care? i like posting not commenting
Yeah, there is a pretty big number of new bot accounts all the time. They are most often used to post propaganda and reactionary bait, to tire people out.
That’s a small part of the reason reddit went to shit, it’s now more bots than people.
That’s why you’ll see many people here telling you to “act like a person”. Most people here don’t want Lemmy to be a place for us to just consume content. It’s not about the memes. Whoever wants an unending stream of memes to pass their time, can just go to insta, and scroll to their hearts’ content.
The memes and the posting, are sorta meant to be part of a discussion, like posting your opinion on things, via memes. What you say, is important. Like how the comments in this post here are saying, politically, that “normal” is actually “angry”, due to where we are in the world right now.
Edit:
Just to make it clear in case I was being negative, you posting, posting anything, whether it’s things people agree with, things that are just fun, or even things people might disagree with, is great!
Your mindset of bringing content in so the communities are alive, is very good! Just try to leave some time, for people to discuss the post in the comments. Talk about it with each other, make up their minds.
Think about it as if every post you make, is a room. You have to let people walk in, look around, talk to each other, and leave.
If you make an art gallery with 50 new rooms a day, people won’t want to come see your gallery as much, because there’s too much stuff, and not enough time to understand it.
I respectfully disagree. Majority of people are lurkers and commentators. Most don’t create content. If there is no content they just go back to reddit. Memes community - yeah maybe there is already enough content, but others are just flat out 1 post a day, it’s bad.