I’ve recently seen bot accounts being used in various discussions, like:

  • @remindme@mstdn.social
  • @ChatGPT@lemmings.world
  • @AutoTLDR@programming.dev
  • @CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world

It seems like there should be a way to discover these bots without having to first see them in use, but the Lemmy User search doesn’t offer an option to return bot accounts and (obviously) doesn’t provide useful results when searching “bot”.

Is there some way to discover them that I’m missing? Maybe using the Lemmy API? Failing some sort of automated curation, does a “Use(ful/less) Bots” community where bot authors may announce their bot exist?

  • freamon
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    1 year ago

    It’s blockable fortunately - maybe not via whatever app your using, but if you log into your instance website with a browser, you can choose to block the bot (at) lemmit (dot) online

    • mizu@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      I did block it but damn it was annoying before i figured out how to do that