Something tells me that won't end well for them.
Will reveal how much their population is bots.
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Do you really think they will out their own astroturfing interests? They will only tell u who is a bit if they didn't want them in the site, not if they paid to be there !
You have to read between the lines. This just gives them the option to label anybody they want as a "bot" with virtually no way to challenge them. They can now ban anybody they wish for posting content they don't agree with (pro-gaza, anti-israel, anti-capitalist, etc).
Let's be honest. The fediverse will also have a huge bot problem soon. We kind of have this right now, but if you look a little bit further in the future, when we maybe come a little bit more relevant, spammers and scammers and all those propagandists will also come here. I suspect that they're already here.
Currently we have no protection at all. You can setup an instance, federate and start with your federated vote manipulation. Our human moderators can't keep up with bots posting spam to their community and we are totally helpless against LLM bots pushing some agenda.
This is pretty uncontroversial as far as reddit announcements go. They aren't requiring identity verification.
Spez announces they won't tolerate competing astroturfing, only shareholder-approved bots will remain.
For some reason, most of the responses welcome that decision!? I guess the others were banned.
If Reddit loses all the bots, they will literally lose more than half of their activity, especially in an election year.
Sounds like a statement to say they have a hard-on-bots policy, but in practice it seems they won't care unless there's significant outcry against a particular account.
The whole text sounds racist AF
Can you explain? I read it and didn't see anything racist.
I honestly only read comments simping spez.
I actually read the announcement, and there's nothing controversial there. They delete 100k bot accounts daily.
It actually sounds like they are allowing bots as long as a human can intervene and is willing to verify their identity if their automated activity is detected. They are embracing slop users as long as they give them their data.
I think the main reason for the announcement, though, was to deal with the rumours that everyone will need to verify their identity (which this post seems to assume is still the case).
Personally, I'd rather see reddit remain the mainstream version of this just so that people who want to run bots for whatever reason have more reason to do it there than here. Because the commercial level ones will have more resources than lemmy admins will have to deal with it.
Then why make the announcement?
You described their normal behavior, now they've made this announcement. Something must have changed.
investors getting nervous?
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