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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 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.