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[Non comic] Increase of bot accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by tatann@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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There's an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.

One of the issue is that they're often divisive posts ("men bad", "women bad", "old bad", "young bad", ...) like they're trying to stir up some shit (is "9gag-isation" a word ?)

I'm not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.

How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?

PS : I'm not a mod btw, but I didn't see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I've seen other comments about this

Edit: they made a "tatann_2" account to post a few comics so it's obviously a troll

Edit 2: and now I'm getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I've pissed off the troll

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bots can just be created on other instances with no verification and post here, so that would makes no difference.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But I think if it became the norm, instances can be straight-up blocked who don’t do have this process, even if many people use it. As people will see the good stuff is elsewhere and anyone who cares enough will do this little extra step. (the philosophy of being active in good places to grow them)

In other words. If this became a real thing, any respectable instance could just not federate with instances that don't have this process.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aren't new instances federated by default? Then botfarms can spin up instances at will and spam before being defederated.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm out of my depths here. That seems like something that shouldn't be technically necessary though.

I hope others will chime in on this thread :)

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

Automatic federation is one of the strengths of Lemmy, without it it wouldn't be really decentralized in my opinion. But I've already responded twice to you without saying what would work, so what do I know.