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Great explanation! > It's a much more fun and human experience than machine-fed algorithmic crap. What happens when the bots show up?
by oezi 4y ago
Great explanation!
> It's a much more fun and human experience than machine-fed algorithmic crap.
What happens when the bots show up?
- alx 4y agothey have their own instances: https://botsin.space/about/more https://botsin.space/about/more
- berkes 4y agoIn addition, its common courtesy to check the "this account is a bot" checkbox, when an account is a bot. And on the other side, it's a single checkbox to say "I want to filter any bots". It's neither perfect nor failsafe. But with enough humans to moderate, report and help out, I'm sure it works better than any centralized, algorithmic setup can ever work.
- rolenthedeep 4y agoThey just don't exist like they do on Twitter. We do get spam bots now and then, but users report and block them quickly. They usually give up before the admin gets around to banning them. Each server individually isn't a great target for spam, since the populations are low, and there isn't a good way to spam outside of your server, because the entire instance can block you. Not foolproof in the least, but I haven't seen anything more than a dozen individual spam bots in the last two years.