As technology advances and computers become increasingly capable, the line between human and bot activity on social media platforms like Lemmy is becoming blurred.
What are your thoughts on this matter? How do you think social media platforms, particularly Lemmy, should handle advanced bots in the future?
To manage advanced bots, platforms like Lemmy should:
These strategies can help maintain a healthier online community.
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☑ Clear label for bot accounts
☑ 3 different levels of captcha verification (I use the intermediary level in my instance and rarely deal with any bot)
Profiling algorithms seems like something people are running away when they choose fediverse platforms, this kind of solution have to be very well thought and communicated.
☑ Reporting in lemmy is just as easy as anywhere else.
☑ Like this?
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What do you suggest other than profiling accounts?
This is not up to Lemmy development team.
Idem.
Mhm, I love dismissive “Look, it already works, and there’s nothing to improve” comments.
Lemmy lacks significant capabilities to effectively handle the bots from 10+ years ago. Nevermind bots today.
The controls which are implemented are implemented based off of “classic” bot concerns from nearly a decade ago. And even then, they’re shallow, and only “kind of” effective. They wouldn’t be considered effective for a social media platform in 2014, they definitely are not anywhere near capability today.
Many communities already outlaw calling someone a bot, and any algorithm to detect bots would just be an arms race