Why does shitjustworks have so many bots? I see certain communities like this where brand new accounts just spam random images. I have a dozen new accounts blocked every day and it’s getting tedious.

What is their purpose?

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Not a SJW user, but this seems like spam indeed.

    LW went on a clean up operation a few days ago to ban spam bots, maybe it is needed here too

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I have wondered about these Blogspot repost accounts, too. Their posts seem harmless (?) but pointless and strange.

    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      There a preservation bot that posts the OG reddit posts but doesn’t include any of responses that makes that post useful (build a PC, troubleshooting, etc)

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Blogspot still exists? I haven’t seen a blogspot site in years! If they’re still around then Google must have bumped them way down in page rank. I guess that makes sense, since Google only pushes products and news sites now.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah they’re still around, although blogs in general seem to have gone the way of the dodo

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          1 year ago

          I’ve been thinking about blogging again. Not on blogspot, but I’ve been feeling that I need somewhere to write out my thoughts somewhere that isn’t controlled by someone else, and isn’t subject to the whims of whatever groupthink occurs on a given platform. I used to have a lot of them, but like most people, I gradually stopped using them as social media took over.

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    1 year ago

    To what end are they posting? What’s the endgame? To make their website show up higher on search results? Eventually posting advertisements? Poking around for bugs? Surely they’re earning no money from posting nonsense to the fediverse.

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        1 year ago

        Bots like that suck. :(

        I don’t know why people want to step in and break something people are running for free without every even glimpsing a profit for doing so.

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          1 year ago

          If you want a crackpot conspiracy theory: It’s Spez paying for bots to ruin Lemmy. If he can’t get rid of bots on his own platform, he can try to make the competition worse.

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      1 year ago

      “[X] Show Bot Accounts”?

      Yes, you can uncheck it to ignore all bots. But then you also ignore useful bots like TL;DR, link converters and such.

      It would be nice to have better control here, more fine granular. On the other hand, I’m not sure if we really need spammy bots like https://lemmit.online/u/bot and http://zerobytes.monster/u/bOt who mostly advertise for reddit.

      Not only but also because, new lemmy users won’t be aware how to control their settings, and be faced with an All-feed which consists of mostly bot posts with zero upvotes and zero comments. Then they leave and never come back.