Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    This was the first thing I assumed would happen when they announced the API pricing. A lot of spam prevention and deletion (hell, a lot of moderation period) is done by bots that use the API, made by people that likely can’t pay the new exorbitant fees to keep those going.

    • livus@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes, Reddit moving another step closer to Dead-Internet Theory.

      There were already bots talking to bots on there. This is about to get worse. I don’t think most people realised how many bots BotDefense was finding and neutralizing.