• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    That’s just the consequence of being popular. Lemmy isn’t impervious or even resistant to this

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      10 days ago

      I’d argue it is resistant. Lemmy is federated, which means smaller instances, making it easier to detect this kind of activity. Crime in a city vs crime in a town situation

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        10 days ago

        Nah, it works for now because no one really tries to spam lemmy. If it gets popular enough companies will pay bot farms to post here and admins want be able to keep up with moderation. Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.

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          I think to an extent yes, but not quite as bad as Reddit. Reddit admins will completely ignore reports about these. I think most Fediverse admins won’t ignore them.

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, and many instances don’t want to defenerate from where almost everyone is, the problem keeps happening…

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          10 days ago

          Think I would agree there, small reddit communities are also going to be more resistant to it. Small hobbyist stuff probably one of the better ones.

    • Aielman15@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Oh, absolutely. Which is why I avoid popular social media: you just end up drowning in AI/botted content.