I've noticed quite a few top posters that are using LLMs or other software to repost news links and images, probably from Reddit, onto a bunch of specific forums. They don't identify as bot accounts, but they are fairly easy to spot because they are posting a steady stream of posts, around 2-3 posts an hour, 24/7. No sleep periods, just constant posts, at an unnatural rate.

Here's a few examples I've found:

@Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club - Joined 2 months ago, 1.69K posts, sole moderator of Build A PC Sales@lemmy.world, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 4 different forums
@sanitation@lemmy.today - Joined 2 months ago, 1.3K posts, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 5-6 different forums
@beep@piefed.world - Joined 3 months ago, 2K posts, moderator of 15 different forums only on piefed.world, also a hidden moderator of Beep—Meta@piefed.world (yes, with an emdash) with zero posts and zero users, seems to try to evade detection by having some posting breaks in-between

Keep an eye on these kind of posters, and report them when you see them.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the reddit reposting bots are not entirely without merit.

its hard to get communities of reddit users to move to the fediverse, but a bridge in the form of a bot can make the transition more appealing.

e. theres also the data exfiltration aspect. as reddit becomes a walled garden, reposting bots effectively free that reddit content into the ether of the fediverse.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's absolutely worthless if nobody comments and the reposting communities are deader than dead as far as I can tell.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 week ago

you do know that lurkers are some crazy number like 95% of traffic, right?

im not a fan of equating comment numbers with user views.

i personally love to see that shit in my new queue.. i dont even have to suffer the subscription in my curated list when i want it excluded.

honestly, i fail to see whatever detriment you think is happening. worst case, ignore/block/mute what you dont like?