I just found a account where it’s comments are all the same stuff over and over again. It seems like spam bot. I thought only reddit had a bot problem but maybe Lemmy has it too?
Here’s the account: https://lemmy.world/u/circuitai
How did I find it
So, for those wondering how I found it:
I first come across that account on https://lemmy.world/c/BestOfAi
Here’s the comment that caught my attention:
Yes, and there’s also a huge amount of bad actors.
I think various forces of misinformation (i.e. Russian propoganda trolls are already here.
Take Lemmy’s Europe: It’s got one mod, with the obviously totally not biased name of geneva-convenience. Full of anti-EU articles (like literally russian news sources)
Highlighting it is an insta-ban. Lemmy is already compromised by bots and the same propaganda pushes that reddit had.
CERTAINLY NOT, FELLOW HUMAN.
Please report them, this is a clearcut case that admins can take care of.
We don’t have any magic technology here to block all bots, but we do get rid of them when they are found
Most of the bots were put there by the admins
The admins here? Or do you mean reddit
I was referring to here
Most bots are required to be identified as such on most instances, so unmarked bots should get reported. Some communities, such as news comms, use bots to post articles from an RSS feed as soon as they’re published. But otherwise no, I wouldn’t say that there’s a bot problem
Yes, there’re definitely bots. If Lemmy is “full of” them off harder to tell and more subjective, but I’d say no. It’s more of an issue in the larger communities, less so in niche communities. There’s fundamentally no solution to this, regardless of the platform.
Maybe Captchas could help against automated calls or something?
As a human being, I failed at most Captchas (blurry images with bikes, buses…)
Bots can solve captchas more accurately and more efficiently than humans. For example, I use the browser extension Captcha Buster to solve Google Captchas for me. Nowadays websites instead use proof-of-work “captchas”, which require the visitors’ devices to solve cryptographic challenges (similar to bitcoin mining). This is why they sometimes takes a few seconds to complete (even more on low end smartphone / battery saving mode). But even those only slow down, not prevent bot access.
There is an option in settings to turn off bot accounts. Right?
In my opinion, lemmy is far better than reddit.
Also you are in a more popular instance, that can also be a reason you are seeing more bot accounts.
That assumes the bots correctly mark themselves.
If they don’t, report them.
No, there are chances a bot might leave the bot account option unchecked. In such cases mods or users who detect such an account will ban or block it, I think.
