@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 1 month agoWhat's your take on the bots here?message-square33fedilinkarrow-up140
arrow-up140message-squareWhat's your take on the bots here?@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 1 month agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish47•edit-21 month agoI think this sufficiently sums up my take: The fact that that’s an option at all makes Lemmy considerably better than Reddit.
minus-squareslazer2aulinkfedilinkEnglish17•1 month agoProblem is it requires bot runners to be honest.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•1 month agoYou can probably get your instance admin to ban any bot accounts that aren’t being honest, which is also a step up for Reddit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agohow do we distinguish bots from real accounts?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoCan bots respond to direct messages or replies?
minus-squareCaptain JanewaylinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoIn theory you can write scripts with Selenium to do anything a regular user would do. Most bots have limits but it’s always possible to basically write scripts that virtually click buttons, write content, post content, etc.
I think this sufficiently sums up my take:
The fact that that’s an option at all makes Lemmy considerably better than Reddit.
Problem is it requires bot runners to be honest.
You can probably get your instance admin to ban any bot accounts that aren’t being honest, which is also a step up for Reddit.
how do we distinguish bots from real accounts?
Can bots respond to direct messages or replies?
In theory you can write scripts with Selenium to do anything a regular user would do. Most bots have limits but it’s always possible to basically write scripts that virtually click buttons, write content, post content, etc.
yes
If we want to, how do we disincentive them?