With the BotDefense team leaving Reddit due to increasing hostility, it sure would be nice if they could find a new home in the Fediverse.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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If we find instances infested with bots and unwilling to deal with them, we defederate them. It at least makes it more difficult to mass-infest the network with bots if we have basic things like captcha, email verification, and applications implemented in all the major instances. cough
Poe's law, but it's chatGPT and centrists
I think this needs to be a cultural change and for our tools to be self employed and socially spread. We cant rely on admins, mods or botcheckers as they may be corrupt or make mistakes. If there are any serious efforts against bots I'd like to know about em.
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