Why allow bots, marketing assholes, and spammers the platform to post and spam to the fediverse? Why? IT really achieves nothing of value and literally just dilutes real, original user activity and discussion.
I think the harm caused by bots affects the whole community and culture, that is why I hope other people will see that a community without bots would actually create a preferable culture and would increase the demand for good quality content.
The API access for bots allows for other people to access that API and make bots that do other things. You are opening the floodgates to other bots because there isn't quite the ability to say "only sports bots who post legitmate scores at times when there are real games occurring can post automatically" you see, that is not going to happen, thereby opening the floodgates to all other bots with no recourse.
Thanks, didn't know that. The question I have now, is why did the admin implement that in the first place? Overwhelming response of " The content bot should be removed entirely.
39.02% (48 votes)" the closest has 17% of "it should post less articles".
That leads me to another topic, I disagree. You know scientists always trying to make things happen but never asking if they "Should"?
That's how I feel about "good" bot content, where, sure, a bot can post something that generates a novel human discussion, but I think this is also inherently bad and is as close as you can get to providing a "turn-key community brainwash application" to anyone who wants it.
IE: the bot posts good stuff, we all pat the bot on the back with upvotes because it wasn't horrible, but then we trust the bot, people trust the bot, then there is no way for us to know if the bot is compromised, what if the bot is compromised, and is slowly but surely, algorithmically recommending content to divide and confuse, FUD, etc..
This is my concern, and lambast me for paranoia, but I'm not wrong, and this is one reason reddit went down the shithole.
Agreed, I quit my browser when I encounter that sense that I've read this or heard this already.. that sensation is happening more and more frequently and so far, the fediverse has been a huge let down for me personally. I was hoping for a return to sense and humble origins of what made reddit good, instead people are literally just emulating reddit 2019 culture on the fediverse and it gives me extremely senior "get off my lawn" vibes.
Unless this becomes a standard for the fediverse. I'm going to opt-out of fediverse social media altogether. Bots have no place in human based social media : full-stop.
What's wrong that is for that bot to exist, the platform must explicitly allow other bots to also exist for fairness sake, it's a bot floodgate. I think the floodgate should be vehemently shut latched and bolted down sooner than later, and I already think it's too late.
That's my understanding as well, I think a hardline on this topic that can be agreed upon as a federation standard will work wonders to curb potential spam and bot abuse in the future.
Why allow bots, marketing assholes, and spammers the platform to post and spam to the fediverse? Why? IT really achieves nothing of value and literally just dilutes real, original user activity and discussion.