Yes, I am aware how ironic it is to post this on Lemmy.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    There are a few that import Reddit posts, but there are also settings to block bots; maybe yours is set to on? But I don’t ever see bots in the comments, which is fine with me.

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      30 days ago

      The bots people are generally worried about don’t announce themselves to be bots.

    • Keshara@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Same experience here. I don’t think I’ve seen a bot in the comments yet, different story on Reddit thats for sure. And when I tried the recent Digg reboot, I’m pretty sure every second or third account was a bot

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        30 days ago

        There used to be PipedVideoBot who would reply to every comment containing a YouTube link with a piped.video version. It was quite annoying, people who prefer Piped usually have a redirect set up to an instance of their choice, while others use no proxy but alternative frontends like NewPipe, Grayjay or Revanced.

        I also did automation on another account of mine, posting an entry from Random Tan Studio’s “Humanization” series on !morphmoe@ani.social every day. No AI except waifu2x to upscale (the images were created as quite low-res bitmaps and looked very blurry when rescaled, which almost all modern clients do). I didn’t consider it a bot account since I would log in myself almost every day and react to comments.