A really interesting update on bots behaviour. I used to be able to spot bots on twitter. I can't spot them on Mastodon and maybe this 👇 is why.
I'll bear this in mind when I see suspicious answering patterns. The last thing I want to do is amplify bots on the Palestine issue ... er, No.
@muffinista I'd definitely not make it a rule that alt text is required for image bots, people will just end up posting garbage, but maybe it would be worth mentioning that it's useful when signing up for a new account?
Nice to see that @himawari_wpac has been back up and posting for a while with no crashes. Not sure what caused the last crash exactly, but hope the error reporting is robust enough now that I'll be able to figure it out. #bots
「 The prevalence of bot traffic was observed across all sectors, with Gaming (57.2%) witnessing the most significant proportion of bad bot traffic. Simultaneously, Retail (24.4%), Travel (20.7%), and Financial Services (15.7%) experienced the highest volume of bot attacks 」
Now the question is: Is it finally time to move @blackjoy off #CBTS, give it a more functional and flexible codebase, and run it on my own box? 🤔 (And do I have enough time and energy to do it before I get distracted by IRL again?) #bots
ClaudeBot is new to me, it’s an AI bot, and it was hitting us fast and hard from 398 IP addresses non-stop for over an hour, completely shutting down our site. Using fail2ban we managed to block it, but WTF is wrong with these people. Claudebot comes from these people: https://www.anthropic.com/
that claim “Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.” Probably best if you block them before they get to your sites.
Sorry to go against the current here, but on a fundamental level Elon isnt wrong about #bots
Douchebag no1 is just a bit simple in assuming money is an efficient form of human-verification, and thinking that people won’t turn it against him (Or maybe that’s what he needs for his crew to love him 🤷♂️)
We’re going to need working human-verification systems. #fediverse might be one of them for now, but even here we might sink in artificially intelligent flood eventually
#askmastodon#askfedi#bots#botstuff - since i dont see an option for subscribing whole server and i would love to be able to see some random stuff from certain server on my feed, would it be considered malicious if i would have a bot that would boost all post on such server? Or maybe there is more elegant solution apart from persuading all server’s users to use certain hashtags?
@wiktor some instances joined or are providing relays - exchanging all their public posts between relay-member instances.
Mastodon.radio provides its own relay: https://relay.fediverse.radio
