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Is Lemmy also full of bots like Reddit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nerdhd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just found a account where it's comments are all the same stuff over and over again. It seems like spam bot. I thought only reddit had a bot problem but maybe Lemmy has it too?

Here's the account: https://lemmy.world/u/circuitai

How did I find it

So, for those wondering how I found it:

I first come across that account on https://lemmy.world/c/BestOfAi

Here's the comment that caught my attention:

https://lemmy.world/comment/25386296

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know on some fedi platforms there is software that will auto-track if a user is a bot or not.

EX: https://piefed.social/u/circuitai@lemmy.world is banned already on my home instance.

Users can be explicit and identify their account as a bot. Which is for the good of everyone (auto-tagging bot for example)

The community can also tag a user as a bot and it will show up as an icon. The can get it removed but theres usually a process.
I know theres at least one instance where they have some sort of algorithm set up to help detection.

I know piefed has some of the above if I recall. Different fedi platforms have different ways of combating it. Its interesting...because if a bot owner wants to be successful they have to try combating multiple ways of dealing with filters/algorithms like the above.

Its kinda like the Linux community and viruses. Sure viruses CAN run on linux...its just VERY hard to do so without market share, multiple iterations of the kernel/software, and overall more eyes on the source code. I can go in right now and improve piefed for example and have something out in a week(?)s time.

Overall, its not impossible for bots to come to the fediverse, its just much harder to stay undetected and filtered out if your using niche platforms.