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What's up with all those spam bots lately in the youtube comment section? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by waka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For a few months now, these bot comments seem to be appearing more and more frequently. Always with a profile picture of a model making innuendos, accompanied by a generic comment praising the video and practically always adding some kind of emoji. Is this some new scam or is it just the current generation of spambots as per usual?

Not that I'm particularly interested in the YouTube comments, but I occasionally check them out and noticed this.

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[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It seems like more and more internet spaces are being taken over by bots. At some point the internet will just be AI talking to itself, while humans will return entirely to offline communication.

[–] waka@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Eh. "The Internet is getting worse!" sounds alot like "New cars suck!", "Politicans keep lying!" and "Everything was better back then!" - some sayings like "The young behave awful!" go back to long before the beginnings of civilisation (probably).

So I wouldn't worry much. Once humans lose interest in something, they move on and the old huts, devices and whatnot slowly erode away. Guess why we are now talking on a federated network - because those big companies started rotting away and the smell slowly starts driving people away.

Just my opinion though. It's still fun to see things crumble.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is why I think its so important the fediverse put as much power as possible to the user.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but how will that solve the bot problem?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 2 months ago

well I did not go into detail but besides allowing the users to block users, magazines, urls, instances, etc we should also be able to subscribe to folks block list. Like if I have been interacting with reversalhatchery a lot and feel hes a good bloke with his head on straight then maybe I subscribe to his block lists to get a jump start on em. could always unblock later.