• @JovialSodium
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    My guess is we’re still too small and niche to be a tempting target.

    I think the federated nature of lemmy will make it an easy target when it does come along though.

    Disclaimer: I don’t really know what I’m talking about.

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    • the post of tom joad
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      There are bots and astroturfers on Lemmy now to be clear, just not nearly to the point of the disaster that is R-town. That said, it’s not nearly as bad. The point i wanted to make is that federation is the one thing protecting Lemmy from corporate bot/shill takeover. The way Lemmy will be reddit’d/digg’d would be if centralization of servers became high enough that corpo corrupted ones become the defacto servers, who’d cut federation with the smaller privately-owned instances we currently enjoy.