I’m sure this is a common topic but the timeline is pretty fast these days.
With bots looking more human than ever i’m wondering what’s going to happen once everyone start using them to spam the platform. Lemmy with it’s simple username/text layout seem to offer the perfect ground for bots, to verify if someone is real is going to take scrolling through all his comments and read them accurately one by one.
Could something like this be implemented as a nsfw filter you can turn on and off?
I’m not going to say “no”, but NSFW filtering is done by a user supplied flag on an item.
There is work that is being done to add an auto mod… https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3281 but that’s different than a cancel bot approach that Usenet uses.
Not saying it is impossible, just that the structure seems to be trying to replicate Reddit’s functionality (which isn’t federated) rather than Usenet’s functionality (which is federated)… and that trying to replicate the solution that works for Reddit may work at the individual sub level but wouldn’t work at the network level (compare: when spammers are identified on reddit their posts are removed across the entire system).
The Usenet cancel system is federated spam blocking (and according to spammers of old, Lumber Cartel censorship).
Ahaha the lumber cartel thing is pretty funny. Anyway let me ask you shagie, from usenet what do you think went wrong that lead us to the centralized services we have now? How do we not make the same mistake again?