• Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Are bots basically scraping Reddit and reconstituting entire subs on Lemmy?

    I said something about how it should be done a whole back, half jokingly.

    I’m glad someone was serious.

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      I’ve been seeing some of that, but there are apparently also a ton of bots being created for who knows what reason and that’s spooky. (it made the user count jump up in hundreds of thousands) Can’t say I know much about that, but I’d imagine it’ll cause some issues sooner than later…

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        1 year ago

        Election time. Same time bot activity gets extra crazy on Reddit. Prepare for shit-tons of propaganda.

      • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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        I had to manage some auto registered bot accounts on my test instance. They didn’t do anything yet but it was pretty obvious they weren’t real. Randomly generated usernames and all created within a minute.

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          1 year ago

          Hey! I always use randomly generated user names and I am a real human that enjoy real human things, like wearing socks and dink liquids.

      • VerPoilu@sh.itjust.works
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        Reddit accounts are being sold online all the time.

        Creating bots is easier early on, when the securities don’t exist yet. Creating an army of account is currently cheap, but may be less so in the future. They are just betting that their army of accounts are going to be valuable in the future.

        • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Selling Reddit accounts relies heavily on karma though, which Lemmy doesn’t publicly keep track of. It’s more likely they’ll be used to push spam or disinformation.

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    I can’t wait until we get bots that repeat catchphrases or tell you when your post contains all the letters of the alphabet! That was the best part of reddit!

    • Mutelogic@sh.itjust.works
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      On principle, I am downvoting any typical bot-response comments. Don’t do that here, not even “ironically”.

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      1 year ago

      I have a thing on my phone that lets me do a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and for some reason lt loses an arm on Lemmy. Made me so sad to realize no bot is gonna answer that.

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        1 year ago

        Here: \ you lost this.

        This was written by a 🤖 please don’t reply to this email

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          1 year ago

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        1 year ago

        Half the fun of lotrmemes was the memes, the other half was the bots talking to each other. Some were predictable, but some were so well timed it was uncanny.

    • Evelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I’ve now seen both sides, I just saw people on another thread complaining about how much they hated those bots and how glad they are that the bots are gone LOL

      I personally am indifferent on them other than the remindme bot, that one was useful.

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    The other day, someone posted a thread about instances that had just started suddenly having tens of thousands of members. That was the first I saw on the topic.

    I went to one of the first ones on the list (k6qw or something like that) and it was a brand new instance with no communities, one post with one response, and 20,000 members.

    So it’s safe to assume they’re either bots or red lectroids (have to see if they’re all named John).

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      I bet my ass it’s a bot army being built by reddit admins to flood Lemmy and destroy it - taking down their competition.

      That or election interference accounts for 2024.

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        Flood how? They would immediately be defederated.

        I don’t understand why it’s not already happening tbh. What are we waiting for?

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    someday, someone is going to invent and popularize the definite way to bind a single digital identity to a living, breathing person. That’s simultaneously going to be the best and worst thing that’ll ever happen to the internet