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I'm sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren't as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn't as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.
But that's just a theory... A bot theory.
My exact opinion.
Say I'm paying you to get on social media and influence opinions with your bots. If you came at me with numbers from lemmy I'd be enraged.
If y'all think bots are here, you don't understand percentages.
Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.
The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.
But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.
Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.
Agreed. I cannot even fathom on how to detect LLM bots.
There are still several tells that haven't completely been ironed out. From years of reading bot comments on reddit, I'm able to discern a bot from a human pretty quickly, so long as I am able to check comment history and time stamps.
They have this weird uncanny valley pattern of speech and it sticks out like a sore thumb when I come across it.
People act like it's the worst thing to look at comment history but it's necessary to check if someone is a real person or to check if their extreme views are really sarcasm.
Y'all, I type like I talk IRL. Let's see bots go redneck.