Hola all!
Joined lem a week ago. So far I’m really happy that this is a slow community. It’s not hyper-consumer news and I don’t get to see 500 new posts about people punching each other or what trump did like 10 minutes ago.
Just wondering from some of the comments, some people either feel like really drone minded or having a hard time to accept the sun is blue, just because.
Makes me wonder some of them are actually bots. Not saying this as in derogatory way. Compared to Reddit, how is the bot situation on lemmy? How often the data is being scraped off and used to manipulate people here?
Lemmy/piefed are still pretty resilient against bots and llms since most instances now require an application with short questions that often trip up bots into revealing themselves.
It also helps that most of our userbase is still real, so any bots that get through often stand out and get reported fast, and most instance admins collaborate to help spread the word if one is found to deal with it.
However, there may come a time when it becomes harder and harder to suss out bots in applications or in conversations, at which point we’ll likely need to adopt new ways of verifying that new applicants are human.
Gonna have to start asking them about tortoises to figure out who’s human
Just from experience as an admin reviewing applications, bots are nowhere near replicants. 98% of bots can’t make an application without using obvious phrases like “I’d like to engage in meaningful discussions”.