Just checked out the hot sort on Reddit and nearly half of the posts were created by bots.

Needed a pickling mix recipe I remembered only vaguely, but before I navigated to the community that held it, I noticed how horrifically botted the front page was. I did a cursory account check of the posts on the top sort and found that nearly half of the front page was comprised of bot posts or bot boosted accounts. Which is, under no uncertain terms, horrific.

Lemmy has its issues, but how someone could see this *toxic landfill* and choose to plant their flag there, I don’t understand. Glad to be amongst the people who cannot tolerate this.