Submitted 7 months ago by spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works to main@sh.itjust.works
Why does shitjustworks have so many bots? I see certain communities like this where brand new accounts just spam random images. I have a dozen new accounts blocked every day and it’s getting tedious.
What is their purpose?
I have wondered about these Blogspot repost accounts, too. Their posts seem harmless (?) but pointless and strange.
There a preservation bot that posts the OG reddit posts but doesn’t include any of responses that makes that post useful (build a PC, troubleshooting, etc)
It’s weird that it’s always some Blogspot subdomain link
To what end are they posting? What’s the endgame? To make their website show up higher on search results? Eventually posting advertisements? Poking around for bugs? Surely they’re earning no money from posting nonsense to the fediverse.
Tagged bots can be ignored using a checkbox in your settings fwiw
these aren’t tagged
Bots like that suck. :(
I don't know why people want to step in and break something people are running for free without every even glimpsing a profit for doing so.
“[X] Show Bot Accounts”?
Yes, you can uncheck it to ignore all bots. But then you also ignore useful bots like TL;DR, link converters and such.
It would be nice to have better control here, more fine granular. On the other hand, I’m not sure if we really need spammy bots like lemmit.online/u/bot and zerobytes.monster/u/bOt who mostly advertise for reddit.
Not only but also because, new lemmy users won’t be aware how to control their settings, and be faced with an All-feed which consists of mostly bot posts with zero upvotes and zero comments. Then they leave and never come back.
I made a list of them and mentioned them on the admin matrix chat last week, but I haven’t had a response.
It comes with the territory of any instance with open registration.
But yeah, a lot of gambling site ad bots lately.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Not a SJW user, but this seems like spam indeed.
LW went on a clean up operation a few days ago to ban spam bots, maybe it is needed here too