A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane (posthuman.blog)
from Thomas2024@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 18:20
https://feddit.org/post/11141937

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Lembot_0002@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 18:37 next collapse

At least something is happening there. Look around Lemmy. No bots, no humans, no posts, no life.

Quazatron@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 18:49 next collapse

Bye then. Best of luck out there, friend.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 18:57 next collapse

Go scroll “All”. Find places where things are happening. Engage.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 19:03 next collapse

You’re not locked in here… door’s right there whenever

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 20 Apr 19:05 next collapse

Hmm, looks like you haven’t been here long. We have our share of each.

shaggyb@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 19:41 next collapse

Why, you didn’t even post this!

doodledup@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 19:57 next collapse

Dude Lemmy feels so much more alive. On Reddit I have like 100 comments and 0 Karma and 0 responses. No interaction at all. Every upvoted comment is just some random generic garbage farming for validation. Lemmy is SO much more live!

adespoton@lemmy.ca on 20 Apr 20:41 collapse

On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

arararagi@ani.social on 20 Apr 20:38 next collapse

Well said, Lembot.

Hegar@fedia.io on 20 Apr 22:12 next collapse

This account is a violent transphobic troll.

They post transphobic comments and calls for violence then whine about being banned from trans-friendly communities because they "just want some reasonable freedom to say what I want"

kreynen@kbin.melroy.org on 21 Apr 11:16 next collapse

@Lembot_0002

@Thomas2024 how do you do, fellow humans?

Lembot_0002@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 12:20 collapse

<ANSWER_GOOD><GREET, 11> RTM. END_MSG.

helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 21:59 collapse

Hey, I might not be any of those things, but I’m here!

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 20 Apr 19:08 next collapse

Meaning you’re insane now right? Who would want to read a insane’s ramblings?

doodledup@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 19:55 next collapse

Reddit is full of Karma farmers.

I still use Reddit for the funny videos and nieche communities I don’t get on Lemmy. But I have to constantly block accounts because they are blatantly farming. Super annoying.

I usually block every account that’s reposting and has more than 100k Karma.

atrielienz@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 19:57 next collapse

This is largely the problem with most social media, and generative AI has made this problem worse just like it has made other pretty terrible facets of human interactions worse.

Anyone who was paying attention on reddit the last couple years (even pre-pandemic) could see that bots were taking over. The main difference (love mods or hate them) was that mods who’s subreddits didn’t rely on bot content to stay active were moderating the bot problem as best they could.

Now, most of those mods aren’t mods anymore and the vast majority only really want the engagement anyway so of course they’ll let bots basically take over.

Reddit the corp never cared about keeping bots off the platform and they care even less now. Bot engagement counts. Bot views of ads count. Removing bots actively hurts their bottom line in the short term so of course they aren’t going to do anything with that.

The actual human users on Reddit don’t care because they’re there to consume. It doesn’t matter to them if the posts they engage with are made by bots or not.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 05:30 collapse

they have been actively culling human users for months now, leaving mostly bots.

arararagi@ani.social on 20 Apr 20:35 next collapse

The sequel is way funnier than this post, the people over at hackernews really take themselves too seriously lmao.

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 20 Apr 22:55 next collapse

Suspicious account with only one post is commenting a hyperlink

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 21 Apr 05:54 collapse

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 21 Apr 12:48 next collapse

No wonder I am not seeing shit, how do I see what’s blocked?

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 12:53 collapse

Move to another instance?

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 21 Apr 12:59 collapse

Any sites that give me a list of what an instance has blocked or not blocked? To pick an instance

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works on 21 Apr 13:30 next collapse

lemmy.dbzer0.com

slrpunk.net

sh.itjust.works

Those three are a good place to start with sane defaults.

For absolutely no filter there’s lemm.ee

There is also lemmy.world which is so generalized as to come under fire from the far left and the far right.

More exclusive than the above but more inclusive than aussie.zone are the following.

hexbear.net

lemmy.ml

beehaw.org

Your mileage may vary.

A full list of who’s federated with who doesn’t yet exist to my knowledge. However you can use defed.xyz to check specific instances

TisI@reddthat.com on 21 Apr 13:56 next collapse

There is actually. You can check it here

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works on 21 Apr 16:15 collapse

This is an instance by instance list which is great thank you. I guess I was thinking there was a full list as a map I guess.

This requires you to know the name of an instance to check against.

TisI@reddthat.com on 21 Apr 16:19 collapse

I highly doubt there’s something like that like said. But for OP’s purpose that link should be good enough to compare some of the instances they’re interested in.

scintilla@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 15:51 next collapse

lemm.ee blocks very few instances if you want true wild west.

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 21 Apr 17:12 collapse

hexbear itself defed from some instances in the past, instead of hexbear beehaw would be more fitting

Oh, and, hexbear is politically oriented left unity focused Anti-West stance instance

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works on 21 Apr 18:45 collapse

Yup. However I’m trying not to add any bias. I did forget about beehaw and I’ll edit my post to include that. Thank you for the reminder.

TisI@reddthat.com on 21 Apr 13:55 collapse

Yes

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 21 Apr 22:05 collapse

Seems to suggest there are only 9 defederated from Aussie.zone out of 1600?

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works on 22 Apr 01:21 next collapse

Check ani.social (that’s the instance of the first user you couldn’t see) to see if they’re defed from aussie.zone

That’s the problem with that site it’s one way.

TisI@reddthat.com on 22 Apr 15:00 collapse

There are also some instances with hidden blocklists. You can check them there as well.

trk@aussie.zone on 22 Apr 10:02 collapse

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

I’m not entirely sure we’re missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

<img alt="" src="https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/522dc66c-2153-4eea-9052-627dee0faec4.png">

BearGun@ttrpg.network on 22 Apr 16:29 next collapse

Ah, the mods are puritanical. That explains it.

Sturgist@lemmy.ca on 22 Apr 17:00 collapse

I’m not entirely sure we’re missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

… obviously porn…you’re missing the porn

yuki2501@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 09:33 next collapse

Coming up, in 2030: Anti bot verification by vtuber posting.

Now this will require a vtuber account.

Or how about the new captcha trend: Craft a simple barn in Arbonautica™ (game download available in Steam). You have 5 minutes.

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Apr 14:52 collapse

Can’t just leave us hanging with that ending!

Deez@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 08:51 next collapse

This was great, read all of his posts and subscribed. Cheers for sharing!

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 23 Apr 17:07 collapse

I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.

Deez@lemm.ee on 24 Apr 06:01 collapse

I read it more as just one of many subtle erosion of freedoms that could lead to a dystopian society.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 25 Apr 05:12 collapse

Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.

HalfSalesman@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 16:46 collapse

This blog isn’t written by a bot right? Its literally a blog called “post human posting”…