I've noticed quite a few top posters that are using LLMs or other software to repost news links and images, probably from Reddit, onto a bunch of specific forums. They don't identify as bot accounts, but they are fairly easy to spot because they are posting a steady stream of posts, around 2-3 posts an hour, 24/7. No sleep periods, just constant posts, at an unnatural rate.

Here's a few examples I've found:

@Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club - Joined 2 months ago, 1.69K posts, sole moderator of Build A PC Sales@lemmy.world, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 4 different forums
@sanitation@lemmy.today - Joined 2 months ago, 1.3K posts, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 5-6 different forums
@beep@piefed.world - Joined 3 months ago, 2K posts, moderator of 15 different forums only on piefed.world, also a hidden moderator of Beep—Meta@piefed.world (yes, with an emdash) with zero posts and zero users, seems to try to evade detection by having some posting breaks in-between

Keep an eye on these kind of posters, and report them when you see them.

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[–] wattanao@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same here. Shortly after I joined the Fediverse I didn't want my feed to look like Reddit's, so I made a rule that if I saw more than one post by someone on my feed at a time that I'd block them. The majority of these are new accounts, so I'd also like the option to filter these accounts out.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like that's not enough, because one should not have to have an individual block list of a hundred users to use Lemmy.

[–] wattanao@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

I agree. I specifically want an option to remove new users' posts from my feed. With the hope that by the time Lemmy doesn't consider them new anymore, they've either chilled out and post like a normal person instead of spamming, or they've been removed from their community for being a nuisance or bot.