It seems unlikely that there’s a lot of people botting Lemmy right now just because…why bother? But I doubt there’s anything systemic in place to prevent it, and I’d imagine that the decentralized nature would make it really easy to skirt attempts to block it.
I’ve come across quite a few bots, but I’m a mod so it might be that that’s why. The mods and admins here on my instance are amazing, they catch a lot of crap. I think you’re witnessing well ran instances, not an absence of bots.
They don’t show up on the well ran ones, so that only matters if you’re on the lesser instance. Those instances get blocked pretty quickly.
My only gripe with lemmy is that the huge instance controls what is on the all page and what is seen in their lemmy user’s accounts. I think the biggest is owned by reddit or meta or some other place like that. Most handle the bots pretty well.
We had the whole… ‘Fediverse Girl’ thing, a while back now… somebody stole someone’s pic and was was dming people as a sort of brute force catfish attempt…
It seems unlikely that there’s a lot of people botting Lemmy right now just because…why bother? But I doubt there’s anything systemic in place to prevent it, and I’d imagine that the decentralized nature would make it really easy to skirt attempts to block it.
I’ve come across quite a few bots, but I’m a mod so it might be that that’s why. The mods and admins here on my instance are amazing, they catch a lot of crap. I think you’re witnessing well ran instances, not an absence of bots.
Interesting, but what’s stopping the bots from just jumping to a less well-ran instance?
They don’t show up on the well ran ones, so that only matters if you’re on the lesser instance. Those instances get blocked pretty quickly.
My only gripe with lemmy is that the huge instance controls what is on the all page and what is seen in their lemmy user’s accounts. I think the biggest is owned by reddit or meta or some other place like that. Most handle the bots pretty well.
We had the whole… ‘Fediverse Girl’ thing, a while back now… somebody stole someone’s pic and was was dming people as a sort of brute force catfish attempt…
But I haven’t seen too much of anything else?
I miss Nicole :(
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