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Have you already encountered those new bots on Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by zyratoxx@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With all these new bot instances popping up, have you already seen these accounts actually raiding stuff? And can/do we defederate from those instances?

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[–] _tinker_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

CW: Homphobia. I've only seen one thread attacked by a bot so far. It repeatedly posted a loooong homophobic comment pretending to be a thoughtful and objective analysis of why gay men have lower life expectancy due to being "sExuaL" and apparently "DiSeAsEd". It posted the same comment multiple times in the thread and responded to multiple comments including its own with the same comment over and over again. Not super jazzed to see that crap here, hoping we can avoid a botpocalypse on the Fediverse.

[–] _tinker_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to remember where I blocked that "user", it was over on my Kbin account. Here is the user if anyone wants to preview them and preemptively block them: https://kbin.social/u/dickusmungus/comments

[–] PerfectParanoia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey thanks for the link. That is a sad account.

[–] _tinker_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problem! I went back and looked through the comments and posts again and now I'm uncertain if it is actually a bot or just a really sick person acting like one. Either way, I've blocked them. I was on a thread about cookies missing chocolate chips of all places for that nonsense to show up.

[–] PerfectParanoia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It actually seems like a person when I looked but still the behaviour seems worthy of a block just to avoid that first 5 seconds of confusion if you stuble upon a comment.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Downvoting bot spam actually does help. Good UX should hide unconstructive comments anyway. Will there be trash? Yes, but it's more or less under control on Reddit because of user voting effects.

The real danger is in letting bots vote more than letting them comment or post. We're safe as long as humans can outvote the bots... but will that status quo continue? That’s our biggest existential risk.

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oof. Yeah, I hope that too.