Was on the other site when a commenter pointed out a response that and like 5 or 6 replies to that comment that were all bots. I am finally getting exposed to the concept of dead internet theory. So, how prevalent are bots on a place like lemmy? Are there natural safeguards against bots? I’m not an engineer and probably need a dumbed down explanation. But I did make it to lemmy! So I’ve got that going for me…

  • Emilie Easie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’d like to know the answer to this, too. As far as I can tell so far, the only protection is that lemmy is kinda small and not really appealing to bot on.

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      @rimu@piefed.social is working on tools for AI detection. Some of the tools we have now for account purging self-deleting accounts may indirectly impact bots too (as there’s a high crossover between spammers and bots).