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Be wary of spammy reposting bots (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I've noticed quite a few top posters that are using LLMs or other software to repost news links and images, probably from Reddit, onto a bunch of specific forums. They don't identify as bot accounts, but they are fairly easy to spot because they are posting a steady stream of posts, around 2-3 posts an hour, 24/7. No sleep periods, just constant posts, at an unnatural rate.

Here's a few examples I've found:

@Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club - Joined 2 months ago, 1.69K posts, sole moderator of Build A PC Sales@lemmy.world, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 4 different forums
@sanitation@lemmy.today - Joined 2 months ago, 1.3K posts, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 5-6 different forums
@beep@piefed.world - Joined 3 months ago, 2K posts, moderator of 15 different forums only on piefed.world, also a hidden moderator of Beep—Meta@piefed.world (yes, with an emdash) with zero posts and zero users, seems to try to evade detection by having some posting breaks in-between

Keep an eye on these kind of posters, and report them when you see them.

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

These posting patterns are pretty easy to spot, I wonder why protections haven’t been built yet. It’s only going to get worse.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Most of this stuff is volunteer work. 99.99% of people are using the respective platforms respectfully.

The changes come from you and me. So if you want to see a change, make it happen. The amount of people actually developing these platforms are VERY small actually.