And the invation of bots has commenced. How donwe best deal with users like this? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by neo2478@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] Anonymoose@infosec.pub 38 points 1 year ago

Is there an option to report accounts / comments? Are bots even forbidden? I'm with you, Reddit was a bot shit show and I'd love to see a space with zero bots. I think even the utility bots like unit conversion added very little value.

[-] iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I was a long time lurker but I'm trying to contribute to conversations to help grow the space: bots don't help grow the space; they only clog it up. If someone didn't care enough to find a conversion formula or whatever, they probably don't care that much about the result either. All of that right there would add up to a 3-4 comment string that added nothing.

[-] Anonymoose@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, it looks like the wave of bots is inevitable. I think I'll just end up sticking to the niche communities and yelling get off my lawn.

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 11 points 1 year ago

The difficult part about that is, the way Lemmy is designed to easily integrate any custom client also allows bots to be made even easier. Only way to really do it would be by restricting the API, and with it, a lot of the freedoms of Lemmy.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The SCP sub had a bot that would tag any relevant SCP articles that you mention in your title or in the comments. It was extremely useful for getting into the community.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always found it funny when Marvin would go rogue and appear outside the SCP sub (which wasn't supposed to happen). Perhaps he was an SCP himself 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For certain tcg/ccgs, some roleplay games with talent trees, even for Lego sets mentioned the bots on reddit subs were great ways to provide relevant context. There is most definitely a place for utility bots in modern social media, the difficult part is figuring out how to define a reasonable limit on that and how to enforce it effectively.