Like people always say reddit is filled with bots, but I looked through the users of the top posts and didn’t find evidence that they are bots.

Like how do you know who is a bot? Is there things to look out for?

Edit: And I’d appreciate it if there are real examples of bots getting caught and the evidence of them being bots.

  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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    Look at the any post about Israel or trans.

    The number of likes is completely out of proportion to anything else. A top political post mught get 1.2k likes, a question maybe 4k, an Israel bot will get 23k, all short replies or replies repeating the original post in that section.

    A trans post would get 22k likes, and literally the day after the election they vanished, thye now get well under 500.

    With a high like count, it gets pushed up into popular and it makes their view look more popular than is actually is.