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1·1 year agoFair stance
Have a nice day/night, I’m going to sleep now.
I guess some people may like those posts but it’s just mindless posting dependant on reddit and posting on those bot instances will get you buried by the rest of post made by bots. I don’t see how using bots for posting stuff would help to build an active community but if people really need all of the posts regardless of quality from some subreddits then it’s fine.
Comments under this post describe the problems with something like that pretty well.
Yeah, but the problem is that you don’t have to subscribe yourself, once someone else from your instance interacts with communities from that instance it will flood the “new” feed on your instance making this feed useless.
Like I said, the content is not quality controled, it reposts posts made by users on reddit so op won’t respond to you, there’s sonmuch content pumped out at once everywhere that there’s no point in engaging in those communities because noone will respond to you on topic. Another problem is that once someone interacts with some of the communities on the instance the posts will flood your “all” feed worsening it’s qualiy significantly.
Lemmit ofc
Yeah, moving some content is fine but posts on this instance are straight up spam IMO. There’s no quality to the content.
You may also want to block lemmit.online
When I made a post saying that 90% (now ~95%) of accounts on lemmy are bots the amount of people saying that there’s no proof and/or saying to me that there’s a lot of people joining from reddit right now was astonishing.
Edit: one person said me that noone would make 1.6mln bots when there are only 150k-200k users on the platform, like WTF.
Karma doesn’t matter, it’s the power to make whatever you want visible by upvoting it hower many times you want or to make something invisible by downvoting it if you don’t like it. As long the amount of downvotes/upvotes is realistic then it will be impossible to know when bots touch something.
The attack started after someone made a post waring about how easy it is to do so they are not losing anything here.
Their political views are garbage but their work is awsome and I respect them for that.
You have too much faith in redditors
Let’s hope that it’s just trolling and bots won’t be put into use. I hope owners will mass delete them later because as long they exist they will be a risk for the rest of the platform.
I don’t think that those security measures were there in the first place. They removed captchas from the incoming release of new code, true, but they already decided to bring them back before the code was released into the wild for instances to adapt it.
Owners can use those bots to boost choosen posts/comments with a lot of upvotes or downvote something into oblivion if they don’t like something. Bots can be also used for spam and advertising stuff. Overall, if the bots become active the platform will be fucked as the quality of everything will go down. One problem that affects us now is that we lost a reliable way of telling how much factual users are on the platform.
Just because the bots are currently idle doesn’t mean that the owners aren’t preparing uses for them…
And there are people in the thread arguing that the number of bots is overblown. :/
You can request that on lemmit.online if I remeber the name of the instance correctly