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Have you already encountered those new bots on Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by zyratoxx@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With all these new bot instances popping up, have you already seen these accounts actually raiding stuff? And can/do we defederate from those instances?

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can hide bot accounts in the settings.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

That assumes they were registered as bots, doesn't it?

[–] NotSteve_@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These spam bots wouldn't list themselves as bots so that wouldn't work

[–] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You think people would lie like that??