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If anyone thinks lemmy doesn't have bots: so far 4 of my downvoters are from accounts created during the reddit exodus, and have zero comments or posts.
People read and lurk. It's not a new phenomena. If they are bots, it would have to be the saddest smallest swarm ever.
Before / during the reddit exodus, a lot of servers had open registrations, and every time I see a no-content account, it's from that time period. Almost no new accounts on any lemmy server are zero-content ones.
Not sure how lemmy compares but it isn't unusual for user generated content online to follow a 1:9:90 distribution of posters, commenters, and lurkers. Just look a the number of upvotes a post gets compared to the number of comments it has and you can tell that most people who vote dont also comment.
I rarely comment because internet discussions tend towards arguments. I usually just upvote comments that already say what I was going to comment anyways.