• qaz@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’ve had 8 bots follow me in the past 48 hours. I suspect they stopped shadow banning bots for a couple of days.

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        2 years ago

        I recently heard that Cloudflare has been having some issues, it’s probably that.

    • zalack
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      2 years ago

      … Reddit has followers? I’ve been on that site for 11 years and legitimately had no idea.

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        2 years ago

        Old reddit had it also, it was the friends button. Only, it was always only visible to the person who clicked the button and simply highlighted posts by the user you friended. New reddit lets you see how many are following you.

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        2 years ago

        Apparently I have 44 now. I guess they stopped notifying me about them after the 4th bot.

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      2 years ago

      Every day for the past three weeks I get followed by at least two onlyfans accounts. They mysteriously disappear within 48 hours of following me.

  • HornyOnMain🏳️‍⚧️
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    2 years ago

    ngl it’ll probably work because most redditors already talk like bots, just get it to spit out a few phrases like: “thanks for the gold kind stranger”, “this”, “+10 social credit score”, “i guess he did nazi that coming”, “and this is why we can’t have nice things”, etc, etc

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      2 years ago

      Now the bot needs to detect the context a little. But sometimes people think that this is ironic and still continue.

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    2 years ago

    I’ll be honest with you chief, I’m not seeing any bots. It’s business as usual on all the subs that didn’t go dark.

  • hydra@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Right as I deleted my account along with almost all my info and comments…hmm

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    2 years ago

    Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.