How do we know that they are bots ?
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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If they're well-behaved bots, there's a "bot user" flag the creator would set on the lemmy profile/settings page. That's the available in the API and usually shows up as a B tag on the web UI (hovering says bot iirc) and a robot icon in many of the apps.
Because they often have “bot” in their name to make it clear.
I feel it makes sense for a few communities where the main activity isn't reading or commenting, but rather only looking at images. That said, a bot won't see how well different kinds of content they post do, so they can (and do sometimes) keep posting low quality/effort, spam, marketing disguised as articles, etc.
I'm fine with bots posting news articles, but there are other communities I'm seeing that are basically 100% bots now and it is just annoying to see.
There is a bot somewhere down the feed posting a comment from reddit complaining about there being to many bots lately.
What's the difference between bots and people manually reposting content? Also didn't lemmy.world ban repost bots?