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AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop: They ask for permission to create accounts … and provide a thank you for running Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Edit:

Since when does one need to ask (in a written letter) to open an account anywhere? You register, you get a confirmation mail, you get accepted - or rejected…

Many Fediverse servers require that as an anti-spam measure, here on Lemmy as well. It works nicely.

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2026
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