does anyone know of a good #python api wrapper for creating #mastodon#bots? looking to create something similar to reddit's u/cahbot for the fun of it (if it doesn't exist already)
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.
I just recently abandoned by Lemmy.ml account and also I've stopped doom scrolling #instagram.
I'm one of those "meme friends", you know, someone who does the #doomscrolling for you, and I just stopped one day and released an IG story saying "do your own damned doomscrolling".
This is because Instagram is now filled up with #bots and #contentfarms. For every 30-40 of useless garbage and mindrot, I got maybe 1-2 good videos/reels.
The internet, including social media, is filling with #spam.
Is there a way to automatically mute accounts identified as being a bot? If not, I think that would be a great feature. That and automatic muting of accounts with posts predominantly not written in your native language. I wish I was multilingual but unfortunately I'm not. #mute#bots#posts#language
「 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 」
So the rudderless leader of one of the world's biggest bot farms is declaring war on bots by charging new users for the "privilege" of posting on the bot farm and interacting with bots.
#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?
Heads up other #mastodon instance admins, the any dot pink #spam#bots have started up again. We've just closed regos here until they pull their heads back in.
A question to fellow website owners: are you noticing, like me, an influx of #spam comments from B*nance URLs/email addresses?
One of my most popular websites went from being under attack from brute force attempts (100+ a day) to now receiving lots of spammy comments from addresses associated to crypto. I wonder if you experienced the same thing?
While AI-generated trash content in combination with bot chit-chat poses a challenge to all kinds of platforms and search engines, one major social media network has already been hit particularly hard: Twitter/X.
@coachtony Will Medium allow our writing to be crawled by AI bots? The news about WordPress and Tumbler is bad, and the news about DocuSign is probably worse. Will our copyrighted material posted to Medium be used/abused in the same way? Will you, like WordPress, provide an option to stop our posts from being crawled? #copyright#AI#bots#chatbots