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7 LLM bots banned from PieFed.social in the last 24 hours - a new daily record (piefed.social)

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[–] greybeard@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago

The web UI may not have a standard API, but it is just HTTP calls like everything else. You can make it harder for bots, but if a browser can do it, a bot can do it without a browser.

And even if all big instances got real good at stopping bot accounts, federation means they can spool up spam servers too.

It's a scaling problem that I fear will end with the fediverse being as spammy as email (One of the original federated communication platforms)