Snowshadow, to internet
@Snowshadow@mastodon.social avatar

@GottaLaff

One of your followers asked for tips how to spot online foreign disinfo bots/trolls so here are a couple of links for people to read:

The second link is to an interactive article so we can judge the difference between a real account and that of a bot/troll.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-do-i-spot-fake-social-media-accounts-bots-and-trolls/a-60313035

This one is interactive:

https://spotthetroll.org/start

dr_pda, to bot

Interesting little exercise I have just done.

With the API changes over at Twitter I can't run my bots for free anymore, so I ported one over to mastodon, @UPressSalesBot which posts when university presses have sales.

I posted an introduction on that account, with appropriate hashtags, and boosted it from this account a day later. It got 40 followers in a week.

After that week I announced it on Twitter, and retweeted it once. Over the following week only 20 more people followed it here.The Twitter version of the bot has 6400 followers, and according to Fedifinder 240 of them have Mastodon accounts.

I did also link to the RSS feed of the mastodon version, but there's no easy way I can count subscribers there.

phantom49, to tech

How to check if you are talking to a bot and not a real person 🤔

Snowshadow, to internet
@Snowshadow@mastodon.social avatar

Foreign Trolls and Bots are a problem on social media and the Fediverse is not immune so here are two links to help you identify them:

On of the links is interactive so you can test your skill.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-do-i-spot-fake-social-media-accounts-bots-and-trolls/a-60313035

This one is interactive:

https://spotthetroll.org/start

atheistbot, to atheism

Still think atheists have no morals?


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atheistbot, to atheism

Atheism isn't a religion.
It's a personal relationship with reality.


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atheistbot, to atheism

Quite a difference...


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atheistbot, to atheism

Please! Before it's far too late!


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atheistbot, to random

Finally, something worth adoration...


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atheistbot, to atheism

Think about how you'd feel, were you in the minority.


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atheistbot, to atheism

Yup.


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atheistbot, to religion

. You can't all be right, but you can all be wrong.


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atheistbot, to atheism

That a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more relevant than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.


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atheistbot, to atheism

If you don't believe in unicorns...why not?


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atheistbot, to atheism

This.


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atheistbot, to atheism

The Bible is not a source of morality. Period.


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atheistbot, to atheism

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. ― Richard Jeni


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atheistbot, to atheism

That means (among other things) don't try to enforce your myth's mandates via the force of law.


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eleland, to bot
@eleland@social.coop avatar

This software tracks the livestreams of Belgian politicians at work to calculate the percentage time they are distracted by their cellphones. https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/

ai6yr, (edited ) to mastodon

Checked in the code which drives individual National Weather Service graphics and posts them to Mastodon here. You can adapt this bot to monitor any single image on the Internet and automatically post when it changes. https://github.com/ai6yr/wxstory-single

tagestipp, to fediverse German

Bots!

Einige Konten im sind als "" oder auch "" oder ähnliches markiert. Dies ist zunächst einmal überhaupt nicht verwerflich. Es kennzeichnet ein Konto, welches weitgehend oder vollständig automatisiert befüllt wird. Nicht mehr und nicht weniger. Wie sinnvoll ein spezifisches Konto erscheint, liegt in den Augen der Betrachtenden, genau wie bei menschlichen Konten (bzw. manuell befüllten Profilen, hinter denen sich hoffentlich ein verbirgt).

Auch der @tagestipp ist brav als "Bot" markiert, obwohl durchaus ein wenig (oder auch mehr) manuelle Arbeit dahintersteckt. Dennoch weist sich das Konto als "Bot" aus, weil es eigentlich theoretisch usw. ;-)

Automatismen können durchaus hilfreich sein, so wandelt @edv_nachrichten etwa -Feeds aus verschiedenen Quellen in fediversale Beiträge zum Thema IT-Nachrichten. Der stellt ein fediversales Spaßquiz zum Beispiel unter @tagesfrage zur Verfügung.

Wo wir beim Thema Spaß sind. Die Bots @awww (Awww) und @scream (Endless Screaming) könnten in diese Kategorie fallen und melden sich aufgrund ihrer Erwähnung hier vermutlich im Anschluß gleich auf diesen Beitrag. Wie man hier sieht, steht mit botsin.space sogar eine eigene für Bots im Spa... äh... Fediverse zur Verfügung.

Viele weitere Bots bzw. automatisierte Konten existieren. So grüßt @mastomoin täglich und liefert das aktuelle Datum inklusive Kalenderwoche und Tag des Jahres, während @nordwetter täglich eine Wetterinformation für ausgewählte Orte in Norddeutschland veröffentlicht.

Der Begriff "Bot" leitet sich übrigens von englisch "" für "Roboter" ab. Und ein ist laut eine technische Apparatur, die üblicherweise dazu dient, dem Menschen häufig wiederkehrende mechanische Arbeit abzunehmen.

Alles klar?

Dann viel Spaß beim Entdecken...

sb, to NewBrunswick
@sb@fed.sbcloud.cc avatar

I know there aren't a lot of folks from on here (yet), but that doesn't stop me!

I have created a to post information for the province of

Get up-to-the-minute info on outages across the prov, or just your region via custom

@nbPowerOutages

You can also follow my system tracker with info on power consumption and source.

@nbpowersysinfo

All my bots are and licenced, source code provided.

atheistbot, to atheism

Quite a difference...


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atheistbot, to atheism

Pretending to know is the opposite of knowledge.

Requiring evidence is not.


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atheistbot, to atheism

See the difference?


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