I have noticed that lemmy so far does not have a lot of fake accounts from bots and AI slop at least from what I can tell. I am wondering how the heck do we keep this community free of that kind of stuff as continuous waves of redditors land here and the platform grows.

EDIT a potential solution:

I have an idea where people can flag a post or a user as a bot and if it’s found out to be a bot the moderators could have some tool where the bot is essentially shadow banned into an inbox that just gets dumped occasionally. I am thinking this because then people creating the bots might not realize their bot has been banned and try and create replacement bots. This could effectively reduce the amount of bots without bot creators realizing it or know if their bots have been blocked or not. The one thing that would also be needed is a way to request being un-bannned if they get hit as a false positive. these would have to be built into lemmy’s moderation tools and I don’t know if any of that exists currently.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    3·
    3 days ago

    If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha.

    The captchas are ridiculously ineffective and anyone can get dummy emails. Registration applications is the only way to go.

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Plenty of websites filter out dummy email generators, could do the same in addition to applications. Making a drawing of something specific, but random (think of a list of a dozen or two images gen-ai gets wrong) could be a captcha replacement.