• BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    People are naive to think there aren’t also thousands of bots here in the Fediverse.

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      22 hours ago

      The only thing keeping the bot population low here is that there just aren’t enough people here to be worth it yet. If the Fediverse grows they’ll come in greater numbers.

      • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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        20 hours ago

        It’s also not as SEO-gameable (since fediverse domains are inherently more fragmented than a large, high-reputation domain for SEO algorithms to rank highly), and doesn’t have an inherent monetization system (unlike platforms like Twitter with their ad payouts), so that’s a couple more things going for us.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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          12 hours ago

          The only time I’ve even seen the fediverse pop up in a search was when I was doing some black magic nonsense getting Linux to do what I wanted. Yes it was a Linux community no it didn’t help.

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          21 hours ago

          For someone who likes digging around in my Reddit history you’d think you’d be able to find something that was actually relevant to the topic at hand. That was a comment about the uses of agentic coding tools for making custom applications, not about building bots.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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            21 hours ago

            Yeah, well, I judge you for participating in all those scat and cuck subreddits.

            DISCLAIMER: This is a joke. I haven’t stalked them on reddit. Just being silly and want that to be clear. :)

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          21 hours ago

          Stop being a weirdo or go start a tech company so your behaviour is at least expected.

      • RxBrad@infosec.pub
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        3 hours ago

        I’ve been noticing a lot more definitely-AI-generated “blogposts” and full-on ads in my Mastodon hashtag feeds.

        It’s a fairly new thing.

        75% of the accounts I’ve had to ban in the roughly-two-years since I spun up my instance have been AI slopfaucets that popped up in the last 2 weeks.