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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

It's a rule implemented because they were being overrun by bot spammers. However, as completely expected, it took exactly 1 day for bad actors to spin up alt accounts and begin abusing bot removal to take down stuff they don't like.