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How Will Lemmy and Social Media Handle Advanced Bots in the Future?
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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There was already a wave of bots identified iirc. They were identified only because:
1 the bots had random letters for usernames
2 the bots did nothing but downvote, instantly downvoting every post by specific people who held specific opinions
Turned into a flamware, by the time I learned about it I think the mods had deleted a lot of the discussion. But, like the big tech platforms, the plan for bots likely is going to be "oh crap, we have no idea how to solve this issue." I don't intend to did the admins, bots are just a pain in the ass to stop.