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The lesson to be learned is don't admit to doing wrong, then you won't be punished (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Squorlple@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Paid shills/trolls are here on Lemmy too

and don't think for a second that there aren't any government agents lurking around here, you'd be a moron to not realize that

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For sure. But I’ve repeatedly raised the point of how we need defensive infrastructure here in hopes that someone has the means and know-how to implement it. Additionally, this meme is more so about Reddit’s complicity with these groups’ bots (both as a company and as the userbase) and only taking action when somebody openly admits to using malicious bots.

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

For sure. But I’ve repeatedly raised the point of how we need defensive infrastructure here in hopes that someone has the means and know-how to implement it

you can't do that without KYC, with KYC enforced across Lemmy, atthat point, lemmy would be just as bad as Facebook and Instagram

That's the same kind of bullshit Nicky Haley wanted to do.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any particular ones to be aware of?

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

Her name is Nicole but you can call her the Fediverse chick

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago

God I hate that. Can't say "hey this things broken" without it being a serious issue like damn trying to address an issue

[+] Cocopanda@futurology.today 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suggest that somebody with the means and technical know-how should establish something like this. Won’t completely stop them, but it’ll help

[–] Gronk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I think this would be more effective on the fediverse too, bots are trying to engage as wide an audience as possible, which gives us a metric to monitor activity across the fediverse.

For example, a user might post an article to the news community on their preferred instances whereas a bot will unbiasedly post it on all instances it deems fit to share with.

This isn't perfect but it's another metric to help weight and quantify bot activity for an automated defense system. RSS feeds and the like can specifically flag their accounts as automated to avoid misbans from the system too

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Crowdsourced sentiment flagging, proof of work for posting, per community post history analysis and a paid staff of admins who won't abuse their power

TL;DR: We won't stop it happening here, in fact it's already happening

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

PieFed has some tools already. Like if someone mostly contributes posts rather than comments, they get a label slapped next to their username to indicate a potential unregistered bot account.

Similarly an account less than two weeks old gets a different label, and someone who gives/receives mainly downvotes rather than upvotes a different label. You can also apply custom icons next to users of your choice (only you would see these).

They are very helpful! Seeing such a label may change how you interact with that "person" - e.g. you could block them, or answer differently or not at all. Knowledge is power.