Random slots, where random posts (age/upvote count does not matter) are introduced and marked as such could help in such a problem without complex systems.

The proportion of these random slots could be a user-setting.

Something similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random Does this exist in lemmy (backend) api?

I think there will be a bot problem on lemmy.

• But lemmy lets you easily search for old posts (sort after date). In these older posts, you can search for people who may still be active today.

• Once an instance becomes overly infected by bot-spam other real instances might de-federate.

Do you know that feeling when you walk outside and suddenly have a random spiderweb-strain in your face? You need to wipe it out of your face with a hand. Maybe this was my spidery flying friend using electric fields to fly past my face.

this is a silly drawing request https://sopuli.xyz/c/sillydrawingrequests

anyway here goes your duck, drawn in Krita: