Clippy@piefed.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDo you think this will cause the threadiverse to gain more users?techcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up182arrow-down1external-linkDo you think this will cause the threadiverse to gain more users?techcrunch.comClippy@piefed.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 day agoInteresting side effect that this will probably kill off some of the Reddit repost bots over here
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·21 hours agoSanitation and his army of bots operate through a Firefox extension so I think we’ll still get the trash posts from reddit, at least!
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoIs there anywhere to track him?
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-214 hours agoSMCF posted a list not too long ago but I’m not sure where it is. Sanitation, Time2lose, oldmanalex, grumpus_maximus, mustachio_grumpus (or something), noralenderbee, liquorice. Those are the ones I remember
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 hours agoSaved. I’ll see if I can find the whole list some time. It’s amazing he tried to deny he’s the same guy yet talks in such an idiosyncratic way…
minus-squaresbv@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoSeems unlikely. If someone is invested in making those bots, they’ll find a way. Running a browser in a VM and simulating clicks is totally doable. If that’s what it takes to make money, they’ll do it.
Interesting side effect that this will probably kill off some of the Reddit repost bots over here
Sanitation and his army of bots operate through a Firefox extension so I think we’ll still get the trash posts from reddit, at least!
Is there anywhere to track him?
SMCF posted a list not too long ago but I’m not sure where it is.
Sanitation, Time2lose, oldmanalex, grumpus_maximus, mustachio_grumpus (or something), noralenderbee, liquorice. Those are the ones I remember
Saved. I’ll see if I can find the whole list some time. It’s amazing he tried to deny he’s the same guy yet talks in such an idiosyncratic way…
Seems unlikely. If someone is invested in making those bots, they’ll find a way. Running a browser in a VM and simulating clicks is totally doable. If that’s what it takes to make money, they’ll do it.