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Can't browse by new because of bot spam (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by binboupan@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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Is there anything I can do to filter out bots? I cant see anything else except reposts from Reddit. Its multiple communities too so I cant easily filter it out. Its mostly the bots from zerobytes.monster.

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[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@sunaurus@lemm.ee, can we please defederate zerobytes.monster? If you look at https://zerobytes.monster/communities, the numbers are extreme. Thousands of posts per community, but only 2-digit comments (in total! for whole communities!), some have literally 0 comments for thousands of posts.

Most (all?) posts are mere reposts from reddit. Their "bOt" posts so much, the user profile (when viewed from lemm.ee) does not load, so we cannot block it. It drowns the All-feed for new users.

Referring to the administration and federation policy for lemm.ee, I think these two lines are relevant:

Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate:

An instance which has a 2:1 ratio of bots to users 🤖

An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network

While it seems to be just one bot and a few users, the activity of that bot vastly outweighs humans, by a factor in the thousands.
I'm not sure if it's their intention to create spam (honestly, no idea what their intention is, really - advertising for reddit?), but in effect, that's what they do.

[–] binboupan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Totally agree with this! We need original discussion on Lemmy, not reposts from Reddit!