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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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What is the purpose of bots, other than spam, lemmy tools and 3rd party scrapers (if that’s a thing)?
Propaganda, brigading, post votes manipulation, and once accounts are "established" they could be sold for astroturfing.
I've noticed weird vote counts, and sometimes it's clearly a bug. But do you think a small number of downvotes that make no sense would be bots? Or just trolls?