Comment on Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits?

Switorik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• icystar@lemmy.cif.su ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s not true. There’s one bot that routinely posts to news communities called “MicroWave” and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.

  Most people don’t even recognize it’s a bot.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, it is true. Check out the lemm.it instance it tried to do exactly what you’re talking about about

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    • icystar@lemmy.cif.su ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Somebody already mentioned that, and I mentioned how all the communities are all locked and literally only the bot can post.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microwave is not a bot

    lemmy.world/post/34751749/18910079

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    • icystar@lemmy.cif.su ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      18.4k posts, and his only two comments are those.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Still not a bot.

        If that account is a bot, it should be flagged as such, and LW admins are usually looking closely at those cases.

        @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, I assume you checked whether Microwave was a bot or not?

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