Asklemmy

43263 readers

836 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

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

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

22 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That assumes they were registered as bots, doesn't it?

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. If they’re bots but not registered as such, just report them.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think the point of these bots is that they try to make themselves appear not like bots in order to steer the direction of discussions. That and upvoting the agendas they want to push and downvoting perspectives they disagree with.