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What will we do about bots around here once it’s not just, well, the people already here?
Any ideas/suggestions? I fear getting popular will ruin the fediverse due to the moderation demands.
Bots here are useless. There's no money to gain.
But say the fediverse grew to millions or even billions, honestly there's not much that can be done. Telling LLM apart from humans is very difficult nowadays and will be probably impossible in the future. The fediverse would face the same issue as reddit. The only difference is that there could be a different way to sign up and get verified.
That's a bit too naive. Propaganda, marketing for products, fake reviews, referral links (or just links to promote blogs/new sites) all make money indirectly. There absolutely is money to make in any popular social network and due to its architecture fediverse is potentially even more susceptible to it. Without a plan to address it, it is only a matter of time before it becomes an issue (unless it stays a niche small community forever but I am skeptical even those are free from bots and malicious actors)
we could just implement like, Anubis checksum per post. it would cost those llm people hundreds if not thousands.
How would that work for apps using the API?
checksum api that allows the apps to run the checksums ? idk I'm just trying to think of ways to prevent bots if it came to it
Beep boop I'm a bot i think you all pretend to be bots too then no one will want to send bots for advertising