Personal experience: the smaller group is, the more friendly and stick-together group will be.

Reddit had bots for a fucking long time. And since they allowed to close up user profiles post/comment history, tracking who is who became harder. There is no way that wasn’t by design, it most certainly is. There is no secret that reddit is in cahoots with LLM companies. They will use (or already are using) bots to populate their site and probably will skew public perception in a desired way using bots.

Not like Lemmy has no bots. But it’s so much more peaceful here.