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How to keep bots and AI slop off lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by drascus@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I have noticed that lemmy so far does not have a lot of fake accounts from bots and AI slop at least from what I can tell. I am wondering how the heck do we keep this community free of that kind of stuff as continuous waves of redditors land here and the platform grows.

EDIT a potential solution:

I have an idea where people can flag a post or a user as a bot and if it's found out to be a bot the moderators could have some tool where the bot is essentially shadow banned into an inbox that just gets dumped occasionally. I am thinking this because then people creating the bots might not realize their bot has been banned and try and create replacement bots. This could effectively reduce the amount of bots without bot creators realizing it or know if their bots have been blocked or not. The one thing that would also be needed is a way to request being un-bannned if they get hit as a false positive. these would have to be built into lemmy's moderation tools and I don't know if any of that exists currently.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If reddit implodes there’s not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.

Why not? Isn't that the reason for the influxes of users that have happened so far?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Hmm, I don't think the past is a good predictor of the future in this case.

Maybe everyone likely to leave reddit for lemmy already has?

With the influxes that have occurred in the past I think Lemmy has retained about a third of the MAUs contained in the spike. It's not nothing but I think it really underlines my point that Lemmy just isn't a viable alternative for a lot of reddit users. The network effect might be responsible for some of that, but not all.

Also, as time goes by there are more corporate backed alternatives, like threads.