Are there any bots that make shitty comments or something like that? And is there anything lemmy would do against bots? I don’t like dead internet theory and hope this place is free

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    26·
    1 个月前

    I’m sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren’t as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn’t as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.

    But that’s just a theory… A bot theory.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 个月前

      Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.

      The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.

      But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.

      Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.

        • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
          5·
          1 个月前

          There are still several tells that haven’t completely been ironed out. From years of reading bot comments on reddit, I’m able to discern a bot from a human pretty quickly, so long as I am able to check comment history and time stamps.

          They have this weird uncanny valley pattern of speech and it sticks out like a sore thumb when I come across it.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      2·
      1 个月前

      My exact opinion.

      Say I’m paying you to get on social media and influence opinions with your bots. If you came at me with numbers from lemmy I’d be enraged.

      If y’all think bots are here, you don’t understand percentages.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    16·
    1 个月前

    There are definitely bots but I think people are good about making their bots known, and most of the content you see is posted by humans… because who tf would pay to run a bot farm on our little corner of the Internet?

    If you want to see absolutely no accounts that self-report as bots, there’s a setting for that in Lemmy.

    • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 个月前

      Yeah… I think that people have this misconception that state-alligned propaganda has to be bots. No lol, there are actual people who voluntarily simp for states for free 🤣

      I had peers in my school acting edgy and said “Hitler/Stalin did nothing wrong” , like bruh 💀

      These people use the internet. I’m not sure if they even believe in what they say, but saying shit like that gets attention, and that’s what they crave for.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    7·
    1 个月前

    Yeah. Fucktons. There is even a community or two entirely populated by bots (akin to the Subreddit Simulator sub on Reddit).

    But at least if they are properly labeled by their operator, Lemmy already has an option to hide them from view in the settings.

    Rogue spambots do sometimes appear, but it’s pretty uncommon and most mods are quick to ban the accounts and delete their spam.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 个月前

    Yeah, we definitely have bots. Robofuckers can’t keep their grubby little fingers off the rest of us humans. There’s also a lot of people who generate AI imagery and spam it everywhere. It’s pretty disgusting, but that’s just the modern internet. 🤷‍♂️