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.
the reddit reposting bots are not entirely without merit.
its hard to get communities of reddit users to move to the fediverse, but a bridge in the form of a bot can make the transition more appealing.
e. theres also the data exfiltration aspect. as reddit becomes a walled garden, reposting bots effectively free that reddit content into the ether of the fediverse.
It’s absolutely worthless if nobody comments and the reposting communities are deader than dead as far as I can tell.
you do know that lurkers are some crazy number like 95% of traffic, right?
im not a fan of equating comment numbers with user views.
i personally love to see that shit in my new queue… i dont even have to suffer the subscription in my curated list when i want it excluded.
honestly, i fail to see whatever detriment you think is happening. worst case, ignore/block/mute what you dont like?