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?

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Lemmy has no capability to handle non-advanced bots from yesteryear.

It's most definitely not capable of handing bots today and is absolutely unprepared for handling bots tomorrow.

The fediverse is honestly just pending the necessary popularity in order to be turned into bot slop with no controls.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Fediverse has the advantage of being able to control its size. If 10 million people join lemmy tomorrow and most of them go to lemmy.World and then lemmy.World users start causing trouble then that instance gets defederated.

Other than that we only have human moderation which can be overwhelmed.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

We also have auto moderators. The recent spam wave didn't occur on my instance at all. But my Matrix notification channel sure did explode with messages of bots being banned.

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