• jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll never understand the antibot sentiment. Reddit was filled with bots reposting stuff all the time too. Who cares? Let the votes decide if it’s good or not

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      It can drown out contributions and questions from actual humans using the site. So while you can also have a useful discussion on a bot posted thread, ultimately someone has to create original content somewhere and people get discouraged if their original posts are lost in a flood of bot posts.

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      1 year ago

      One consideration is who controls the bot and decides what information it spreads.

      A corporation or government agency could use bots to have significant influence over decentralized social media

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        1 year ago

        For sure. But isn’t that what votes are for? As long as it’s not from obviously problematic sources I’m still not seeing a big issue here either.

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          Bots can post advertisements, disinformation etc. More likely their message will spread if they keep exposing people to it. And yeah, bot accounts can also vote