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Dead internet theory!!!
No longer a theory lol
it would be funny when it turns out that it was all some indian outsourcers.
Ugh, only bots still post about dead internet theory.
beep bop!
Hello again, I see we’re both annoyed by the same person still
Yeah this shit is getting out of hand.
Already blocked the ass
What’s the issue if you can just block them and not have to deal with them?
The principle. Repost bots ruined Reddit and we don’t want them here
A day ago he reposted a meme about a doctor raping a woman because her credit card was declined and she couldnt pay for care.
Thats VILE.
In addition to the slimy pretending that his posts are organic traffic by not just marking his account as a bot, he is also importing the culture of casual sexism from reddit to the threadiverse.
He’s like 14 or at least has the brain of one. I hate the sexist shit he always posts. Let’s keep 4chan shit like that on 4chan
📡📡📡 Lazy-ass poster with dumb emoji titles
Is that the incel on shit posting?
Yeah, all the gender wars and incel garbage is pretty much just him
https://sh.itjust.works/post/67242461 The post I was referring to
Yep. I see this all over the new feed.
It’s stupid just reposting 100% from another place. If I wanted that, I’d just go there.
I do like that posters who seem ro manually post filter the stuff from other sites which in my opinion increases the average quality of posts. Reddit is a tidal wave with a few gems. The fediverse is mostly the gems, like using cheesecloth in a strainer.
You’d go to reddit?
I would if I wanted to, but I don’t so I won’t.
crosspost to c/FuckReddit
I’m new to this platform and not finding that in the community or general search. How do I access that?
Personally I don’t mind it too much, as long as
- there’s no vote manipulation to artificially boost the post
- there are genuine interactions in the comments
- the account posting this is properly labelled as a bot account (if it’s an actual bot)
Looking at this specific accounts history it seems as if its a regular poster (with a bit controverse ethics about content creation if you will) and as if OP has just labeled the account to be a bot.
Slop in, slop out.
This AI thing might turn people off the Internet???
I like to frequent HackerNews for some of the discussions there, but… my god, the front page just turns me off. I do a quick glance, see if anything isn’t some not-so-subtly covert advert for an LLM product, and just navigate away.
There are some alternative front pages (https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai) to make it bearable, but even then
I use a lot less internet than I used to because of it.
Working on it!
I’ll drop everything and come to piefed right now. On god.
Question though: How or will you differentiate between people who are scheduling mass posts from reddit from people who just saved memes that also happened to be there?
I hate the reddit reposts where the only interaction is on reddit … that defeats the point of lemmy\fediverse?
Awesome, thanks so much!
If you can detect it, you could auto ban them, no?
I think a rule against serial reposting would be fine and, probably, popular.
I wouldn’t like a blanket rule like that. I think that dropdown menu in the screenshot is perfect. Especially if paired with a toggle in the community settings that lets the mods ban posts from them entirely.
Isn’t that just a client side filter, would be up to whoever runs the community/instance rules for handling bot accounts, and if they feel the accounts should be banned.
Yes the screenshot is just the user settings. Admins are going to have to manually designate accounts as reposters because I haven’t even tried to make an automated detection. That would be very hard to get right.
How is this any different to a user blocking them directly? What a useless feature.
Edit: Really?
Trying to mark me as a bot or possibly dox my IP by visiting your link because I thought it was a bad idea?
Is there a way to tell repost rates for today vs yesterday?
Not yet, this functionality isn’t running on a live server.
And what happens when you get this detection wrong?
It’s manually-applied and reversible. I can’t reliably code an automatic reposter detection system because they’re all different. It’s going to have to be a human judgement.
Similar to labelling things as AI-generated or NSFW - being a reposter isn’t necessarily bad. It just means that people who don’t mind whether they see it can do so and those who don’t want to can avoid it, without the conflict that ensues when people with different needs and tastes are forced to share space.
And you’re leaving this up to individuals, not your judgement, right? If so, good idea. If not, eww.
Individuals, yeah. Instance admins are going to need to designate reposters if they refuse to self-designate (and Lemmy doesn’t have functionality for them to do that, except as a bot) and then it’s up to individuals to decide whether they filter out reposters or not.
Oh, so you’re leaving the labeling to instance admins, not individuals. That’s problematic, but you do you.
The label doesn’t do anything until individuals opt in to filtering based on it.
We can’t leave it to the reposters to self-identify because
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Lemmy does not have the functionality to do that and
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reposters are deceptive and sneaky
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All of those posts are heavily upvoted and have multiple comments though? Accreditation, etc. are all valid critiques, but I genuinely don’t understand why so many people care about the provenance of posts.
I post pictures of bread I bake and I’m on the upper lower middle side of mid for my baking skills.
If someone picks the best bread on a subreddit with a million members my posts will be buried instantly so what’s the point in adding real content?
I think that’s a bad analogy for a few reasons. First, all the examples you’ve posted are specifically meme template-friendly subs, which makes sense since they’re inherently easy to repost. I don’t think think a baking community would have that problem. But even if it did, you could just start a new baking community that bans reposts? Given how unpopular repost bots are, I assume your anti-repost baking community would be more popular than the hypothetical pro-repost baking community that your posts are buried in. Assuming that repost bots are drowning out more organic content, which prima facie doesn’t seem to be the case in either community you screenshotted as examples. Both seem like pretty solid examples of their being no other content.
Structurally speaking, up and down votes should ideally, roughly sort posts by quality. A post being buried (unpopular) in a community isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
If fear of not getting enough internet points is what’s keeping someone from posting, that’s more on them.
If I wanted to battle bots for engagement I’d be on reddit.
You’re not battling anyone for engagement because you’re not posting anything yourself. All you can offer is hyptheticals with no supporting evidence.
Why don’t you go hang out in /askscience or /askhistorians with Portnou if you want all organic content. He and his multiple personalities are posting there dozens of times per day and those communities are just popping off with content and activity.
kinda wierd for someone with a yr history that only posted a few things early on and then a few more 3 months ago who then also is on so unoften he does not recognize your handle to make this statement about your user. had to tag that.
Upset that your daily screenshots of the mod log aren’t getting much engagement? Perhaps you’re jealous that your reposts from /r/news aren’t getting as much traction as time2lose’s reposts? What engagement are you generating other than your current crusade against this specific user?
Edit: its also interesting that not only have you started a crusade against users for posting content that you don’t agree with (even though you don’t hold yourself to the same standard as evidenced by all your own reposts), but you’ve also started a community for you to start a crusade against mods for making decisions that you don’t agree with. There seems to be a pattern here where everything revolves around you and everyone needing to meet your demands.
Um… what?
That’s a very fancy way of saying, “I bake the middest of mid bread.” And I approve
The canary sings despite the cage. You don’t have to sing to anyone except for when you want to
Thank you SMCF for calling them out so I can tag them and move on
They’ll make two new accounts by next week so good luck.
Oh, I see I cut the head off of a Hydra.
So the solution is to subscribe to good communities or block bad ones.
The solution is for all these people complaining to post new, original content every day and give lots of engagement with each one. Since that takes a shit ton of effort and most people work and have lives outside of the internet, they’re unwilling to do that because it would be a full time job, but they’ll still complain about it and demand that someone else fix it for them.
I don’t expect it from everyone every day. You just need a few people at a time.
Better ways to search for or pay attention to niche communities might help too. Scaled seems like its supposed to attempt to give them more focus but I don’t think it works very well when I have tried it. Problem is if I sub to 50 tiny communities and 1 popular one, my subscribed feed is dominated by the popular one and anything else will be drowned out.
The worst part is the lack of transparency and credit to the actual authors. Many of the reposts are personal to the OOP, and it feels extra scummy.
I hate all of them, but I hate the ones not marked as bots more than those that are marked.
This is why we can block things
You do realize that 95% of all Reddit / Lemmy posts are all created by bots right?
Show your work
I’ve run this experiment before. ~90% of accounts sampled on the top 20 /r/all with not prior post history before 2-3 months got converted to cryptocurrency spam bots. Some of the remainder were porn spam. A few deleted accounts. A few seemingly real people. This was during the heights of cryptocurrency mania. Believe me or don’t. I can’t be assed with source dropping internet-pseud wankery.
Bot deception tactics have certainly changed since the prevalence of LLMs. I haven’t been paying attention to what the patterns have shifted to. Before these times, it was easily spotted because they were relatively simple.
I believe earlier this year someone on /r/theoryofreddit spotted closed networks of subreddits where bots engage with each other. Those are used to farm accounts on a massive scale.
I’m talking about lemmy.
More like reddit has so much content it dwarf’s lemmy, but it was bound to happen, you can always mute the bots
Only if they mark themselves as bots.
Well the bot in the screenshot is marked as a bot
That’s a manually applied user tag inside the client of the person who took the screenshot. System bot accounts show up differently.
Ahhh, I must have one of those I can’t see
