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With all these new bot instances popping up, have you already seen these accounts actually raiding stuff? And can/do we defederate from those instances?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can hide bot accounts in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That assumes they were registered as bots, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. If they’re bots but not registered as such, just report them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the point of these bots is that they try to make themselves appear not like bots in order to steer the direction of discussions. That and upvoting the agendas they want to push and downvoting perspectives they disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These spam bots wouldn't list themselves as bots so that wouldn't work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You think people would lie like that??