So I was on the Mlem app and I see post after post made by bot. I’m assuming this really is a bot? Some new communities only seem to have posts made by bots, and in the text it says that they copied a post from Reddit. What’s going on? I don’t see the same thing when I’m on Lemmy through the weblink. Is there something I should do with those posts? Ignore them? Is there something wrong with the Mlem app?

  • ClassyHatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Some communities have bots that copies posts from Reddit. Some do that so there would be more content in Lemmy. Those bots probably don’t break any rules set by the Admins of those instances.

    Personally I don’t like that content is being copied without the permission of those who made the posts in Reddit. Also, in some cases it sort of defies the whole point of the community. For example, one of the Explain Like I’m Five communities has a bot like that. The bot includes a link to the original post. Why would anyone reply to the bot’s post, when you can just read the explanation from the original post? That doesn’t help make Lemmy more active place when a bot posts things and no human ever replies to them.

    • NumberedDuck@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for explaining, I agree. Just copying Reddit isn’t going to enrich the fediverse. On the contrary. We need to make our own posts, our own discussions, useful information and our own databases.

    • clueless_stoner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Totally agree. We need content and we need it fast, yes, but not that kind of content. It’s just theft.

      Check out the ratio of comments to posts on World News, which has more than one bot. And check the same ratio for this community. It doesn’t feel right, does it?

  • Michael_543fdshgfd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    There is a new generation of hackers trying and learning how to use AI models on everything, I recently saw someone deploy an AI bot on a mobile game called ‘Bullet Echo’ that was learning in real time while playing with me on my team, I uninstalled the game out of frustration knowing that my time is being wasted to train a computer to disguise itself as a real player.

    It’s a problem, I’m predicting it will only get worse. sorry.

  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    What is the account name, community name, or instance name you see in the app? It could be that the app is showing you the all feed, which also shows other instances, and the web defaults to subscribed or local.

    I’ve seen a bot posting to Lemmit Online. It’s just reposts of reddit threads. I’ve blocked it since it’s a useless bot.

    • NumberedDuck@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      The account name is just bot or lemmybot and I saw lots of the posts you describe in explainlikeim5 for example, but I don’t remember from which instance this community was. Not the one on Lemmy.world. But there were more communities with lots of bot posts like that.

      And I do put my app when I open it on all. So I can see the other instances and find new communities I want to join. I also put my weblink on all. So that can’t be making te difference in why I don’t see any bots on the weblink and almost only botposts on my Mlem app.

      So I can just block it? It’s not like real people also post in that community that could be of interest? It’s just a bot community? And how do I block it? (Haven’t tried it or looked for it myself)