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.
I don’t understand people who advocate for less content on the Fediverse. Sure, all-original, organic content is ideal, but I’ll take Reddit reposts over nothing at all. And how are we to expect new users to stick around if there’s nothing here?
this is a regular occurrence.
theres this idea among some that they absolutely must not be exposed to things they dont like, and this is how they show it… .they have block lists that are freakin huge with accounts/instances and they whine incessantly about what amounts to absolutely nothing.
and youre spot on… this is content being added to a sparse area… content that can be discovered later on by people who join eventually. it hurts no one by existing.
i have like 7 accounts blocked in 3 years on the 'verse, and they are mostly shitty remote mods
Half of the bots I encounter just share news articles in non-news communities. Thats what I dislike most. I get my news from reputable sources, the Fediverse is for social interaction.
bots not performing correctly is a different conversation than ‘no reposting bots at all’.
i agree that all bots should be publicly identified and held (moderated) to their purpose and contextual content.