There has been a big surge in bot accounts
Basically many of the newer instances allowed sign ups with no bot protection
This is why we can't have nice things and need to deal with CAPTCHA and email verification etc..
There has been a big surge in bot accounts
Basically many of the newer instances allowed sign ups with no bot protection
This is why we can't have nice things and need to deal with CAPTCHA and email verification etc..
The only bots I've seen are posting news, TIL, etc. No annoying bits so far.
I have a crosspost bot, I'm mainly testing it and it's purpose is to use reddit as link agregator to help small communities get some content going.
It only posts external links, never OC nor a link to reddit.
Also in my case the bot will get one post no older than 5 hours every hour, to prevent flooding with posts.
What are the bot accounts being used for? I haven't noticed any posts made by bots (unless you guys are all ChatGPT and I'm the only human here)
Sometimes I wonder if the people I'm talking to are even real humans. Their responses can be so totally out of left field.
Have you considered the possibility that everyone on the internet is fucking crazy
Haha, maybe. Depersonalization does seem to do weird things to people.
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Did you miss the news about Reddit pissing off all their users, many of whom are now looking for alternatives?
People seem to be aware, and taking steps to deal with it: e.g. https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/65767/Introducing-The-Lemmy-Overseer.
there's no karma to farm. there's no algorithm to game. the best they can do is spam.
No. They can be used in influence campaigns. They can upvote the posts and comments the controllers want you to see and downvote those they don’t.
Spam’s obvious and can be dealt with. Bots altering what shows up in your feed is impossible to combat as an end user.
In some ways, this shows Lemmy is winning. It means Lemmy’s important enough to start trying to influence. It also means we’re about to go through some interesting times.
And spamming can be a serious problem for forums such as Lemmy communities
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