What’s the point of paying bots to join Lemmy instances?

  • FlowerTree@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I assume we’re talking about spam bots, not bots whose entire purpose is to reupload content from elsewhere into here (i.e. reddit reposter bot).

    Most likely, spam. Spam and scam has been quite a problem on Mastodon, so I wouldn’t be surprised if bad actors want to bring them here.