As technology advances and computers become increasingly capable, the line between human and bot activity on social media platforms like Lemmy is becoming blurred.

What are your thoughts on this matter? How do you think social media platforms, particularly Lemmy, should handle advanced bots in the future?

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[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Does lemmy and other fediverse stuff currently have such a huge bot problem?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

Hard to say. That’s the problem.

A detectable bot problem is a solvable bot problem.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. But at least with the admin group I'm part of, it's dealt with fairly quickly, because we employ automated tools to help fight the spam.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You can't really tell.

It's also a very very VERY small platform compared to other social media platforms like Reddit. (I had another comment where I calculated this but it's ridiculously small)

It is unlikely that it would see anywhere near the same level of dedicated bot activity due to the low return on invested effort.

This is a problem that will become greater once the value of astroturfing and shifting opinion on Lemmy is high enough.