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I have read a few people mention it being an issue on here, but now I am starting to see it myself, blatant bots posting really crappy AI images. I do not want this to turn into Facebook with shrimp Jesus, so I'm just wondering what can be done to prevent bots from polluting the airwaves here. Any ideas, or work being done on this front?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (15 children)

Make sign ups require approval and create a "trusted user" permission level that lets the regular trusted users on the instance see and process pending sign up requests and suspend/delete brand new spam accounts (say under 24 hours old) that slip through the cracks. You can have dozens of people across all timezones capable of approving requests as the are made, and capable of shutting down the bots that slip through.

Boom, bot problem solved

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If only where was a way users could alert mods and admins about suspicious accounts.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Blahaj admins don't want to do work tho

They would rather ban users who whine about trolls and bots

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