I’ve had a pretty depressing morning, scrolling through my Subscribed feed and realising that 90% of new posts were from the same two bot accounts (bagel and somethingmelon, can’t be remeber exactly and I’ve blocked them.)
Thankfully, a few people had made “ai slop” comments under one, so I checked the post history and, sure, a new account posting at a implausible rate. And once you started looking at the posts they were kinda samey, generic or a bit off. But I think that if the bot had been programmed to post at a slower rate, I don’t think I’d have really noticed.
So my question is, should people be allowed to report bot accounts? And can/should mods be expected at assess someone’s humanity? The very idea is gross, but so is the thought that lemmy would be very easily swamped by a small number of more careful written bots.
If it’s a bot that is not registered as a bot, yes it should be reported.
If it’s registered as a bot account it doesn’t show up in my feed because I have the hide bot posts.
The only reason I have that setting off is because I really enjoy the daily bunnies community. And that one is basically just a bot posting the daily illustration
I didn’t know about that setting, cheers
I’m curious, if an RSS bot posts something, and a human cross posts it (hopefully because they decided it was high quality), does it show or not?
Cross posts on Lemmy are separate posts. It shows up. The cross reference is an addition.