I can kinda see it happening on mainstream internet, on YouTube etc. with witless non-nerds but I’m surprised to see it in places that inherently require one to be a tiny bit internet savvy, like Lemmy. I get that getting a bot spam the same message isn’t exactly resource intensive but i still wonder if the cost-effort-return ratio is worth it.
I don’t see much spam or ads, thx to ad-blocking and most likely thx to a narrow selection of websites I allow myself to visit, and I never click on ads: this ad-filled version of the Internet only deserves my disdain, certainly not a second of my time.