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Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.
How do you know? Just curious.
Post history and seeing the same username every day. Plus they rarely every respond to questions and comments when they post and what they respond with is generic.
Shit, sounds like me.
What's the purpose of doing this as a bot but not declaring the account as a bot account? On other sites, they do it for karma farming, but that doesn't really apply here, right?
Probably just another layer of analytics for engagement bait in other spaces. They can also copy top comments and train LLMs and whatever else every bad actor does to every internet comment site now. They are like a slime mold and grow toward any source of nutrition except it's an n-dimensional maze and the nutrition is influencing public opinion and scamming people.
Maybe it's the bot of the guy who thought the only way to save the threadiverse is by having bots repost almost everything from Reddit.
If you see the same username every day, that means you are on every day.... only a spy would do that.
Suspected Chinese agent, possibly Russian
In other words, you don't really know - not that there's anything wrong with that. Opinions and "it's obvious" are the social media standard for "fact".
That user has a history of reposting reddit content and the format and pattern of posts are obviously not human. All of its posts are originally from reddit. A simple search of its posts will show you they are copied word for word from an older reddit post. What more evidence do you need?
I prefer to think of it as being observant and investigating but to each their own. OP has been called out on almost every post and never defended themselves. Could be a human who doesn't check the replies but either way, the behavior is the same.
Nah those people complaining are reddit agents. Trying to ruin lemmy
As I told you on your other account, you are the one bringing reddit into the threadiverse.
Comments accusing critics of being "Reddit Agents" are an indicator of a specific spammer. They are a proven operator of LLM-driven spambots. Two weeks ago one of their alts, sanitation@lemmy.today, left their prompt in the title and body of a post.
We can ruin our own instances thank you very much.
lol not even a little. I'm trying to grow my lemmy communities. I have no problem with it being a bot, that's why I haven't blocked it. My issue is that it's not declared as a bot. Several times I've found myself asking further questions to just realize, it's that same guy who posted a "my super cool thing" five minutes ago and I won't get a response to my question. There's no way he has a jurrasic park themed turtle sanctuary in addition to the other 50 sweet things in his house/yard/town/