I've noticed quite a few top posters that are using LLMs or other software to repost news links and images, probably from Reddit, onto a bunch of specific forums. They don't identify as bot accounts, but they are fairly easy to spot because they are posting a steady stream of posts, around 2-3 posts an hour, 24/7. No sleep periods, just constant posts, at an unnatural rate.

Here's a few examples I've found:

@Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club - Joined 2 months ago, 1.69K posts, sole moderator of Build A PC Sales@lemmy.world, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 4 different forums
@sanitation@lemmy.today - Joined 2 months ago, 1.3K posts, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 5-6 different forums
@beep@piefed.world - Joined 3 months ago, 2K posts, moderator of 15 different forums only on piefed.world, also a hidden moderator of Beep—Meta@piefed.world (yes, with an emdash) with zero posts and zero users, seems to try to evade detection by having some posting breaks in-between

Keep an eye on these kind of posters, and report them when you see them.

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 4 points 30 minutes ago

Please use the cross-post feature.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

Im tempted to code a solution in piefed/lemmy so community moderators can put rules in place for max number of posts per day. Comics got tremendously better when they implemented the max 2 a day posts. Or maybe instance wide as well?

It made it so communities were not overrun with posts/bots.

[–] zeet@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'd love the ability to filter users based on average posts per day. My world does not need twenty screenshots per hour of some edgy comments from Xitter. I don't care whether the posters are human or not; what does it matter if they've become meat puppets of the algorithm?

[–] wattanao@fedia.io 7 points 1 hour ago

Same here. Shortly after I joined the Fediverse I didn't want my feed to look like Reddit's, so I made a rule that if I saw more than one post by someone on my feed at a time that I'd block them. The majority of these are new accounts, so I'd also like the option to filter these accounts out.

[–] cookiecoookie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

I already had them blocked lol

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

the reddit reposting bots are not entirely without merit.

its hard to get communities of reddit users to move to the fediverse, but a bridge in the form of a bot can make the transition more appealing.

e. theres also the data exfiltration aspect. as reddit becomes a walled garden, reposting bots effectively free that reddit content into the ether of the fediverse.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 hour ago

It's absolutely worthless if nobody comments and the reposting communities are deader than dead as far as I can tell.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The ones that annoy me the most are the reddit repost bots from their ai sublemmy.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I understand the want for them during the great api migration but, there's enough people here now to have a conversation. Just post the shit you want to talk about and have a meaningful conversation.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The thing is though is it's just spam content with no interaction. Even the people setting up the bots without interacting with the content they post.

And honestly, if they would just steal the content of the post and use a bit to repost that, I wouldn't have a problem with that. But it's all text and self posts. If it's articles, that's great.

Look at the ask reddit bot. It's just reposting valid questions some other bot is posting to reddit.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah it doesn't feel useful.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

These posting patterns are pretty easy to spot, I wonder why protections haven’t been built yet. It’s only going to get worse.

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

Beep at least actually does puppet this account (even though they have several accounts).

[–] Davel23@fedia.io -2 points 1 hour ago

I don't understand people who advocate for less content on the Fediverse. Sure, all-original, organic content is ideal, but I'll take Reddit reposts over nothing at all. And how are we to expect new users to stick around if there's nothing here?

[–] beep@piefed.world -2 points 1 hour ago

Yes, I highly recommend you block Beep.

I don't know how was he allowed to stay for WHOLE 3 MONTHS in the fediverse!

Who the hell does he think himself to post "memes, photos and links" and to mod communities on social media.

We will be damned if we let him go on.