So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

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    I know it is part of the Fediverse, but I wish bots were a not thing or allowed. I know they are not ‘assholes’ but I just think they take away from having real human connections.

    I think we just collectively need to learn how to act better.

    Choose not to respond when people are agressively onesided, you won’t be changing their minds.

    We cannot control assholes or trolls, but we can control our behaviors. Stay kind as long as possible, disengage when you can’t. Don’t let these idiots turn YOU into an asshole.

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      There were a lot of very useful bots, and you can’t block bots anyway without blocking APIs, and we can all see how well that goes.

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      I think some bots are good. I could personally go without seeing the bots that reply to comments when something specific is said, but many subs had helpful bots in them.

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        I am not into automatic memes. I do enjoy bots with specific callable functionality like looking up the Wiki, IMDB, whatever, or the reverse video bot.

        I just don’t want to see the “good bot” reply everytime a bot does something.

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          Correct me if I’m wrong but the whole ‘good bot’ thing was to help the bot to improve and moderators to remove bad bots? I’m easily wrong on this but that was my understanding. It helped with the pruning of bad bots and the growth of good ones.

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            Something I enjoyed is how, during the rise of /r/transcribersofreddit transcribing image content into a comment, because of their standardised formatting, people often assumed they were a bot, so would comment “Good bot”.

            However, they were human posters, and this was often revealed by another bot that would look out for “good bot”/“bad bot” votes on (seemingly) human posts and say “are you sure [user] is a bot? Because I’m 97.84% sure they’re not”.

            Eventually, it was common to see people replying to the image transcribers’ comments with “Good human.” and that always made me smile.

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          Exactly, that was so annoying. Or bots coming to correct grammar, or make haikus. They’re fun at first and then they’re just spam.

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            Yeah, this is what I mean when I say I want human only interaction. To extend to the future, I never want to have a conversation with ChatGPT or whatever crap comes along. AI can be useful but the way it is used for deception disgusts me to the core.

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      I loved a good haiku bot. Some places even had Wikipedia bot. But yes, bot users are not cool on the whole.