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Does anyone know who is running the cm0002 accounts? (communick.news)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip
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I see bot accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.

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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (13 children)

It's someone who doesn't understand how the fediverse works and thinks bot spam is a we should be grateful for.

If you ask one of their ~20 accounts, you may get a copy/paste reply about how it's somehow fighting lemmy.ml

None of it really makes any sense.

But they're obviously not going to stop. So I just block them anytime I see one pop up.

The problem with what they're doing, is the repost bots may post an article, and everyone who blocks spam bots won't see it. If ahuman account posts it, it may be removed because the spam bot made a post no one saw because everyone blocked them already.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

    bot spam

    I will say the same thing I said when I was trashed for running the alien.top bots: it's not spam if the content is relevant to the community and if it's posted at an acceptable rate.

    The communities I am seeing get at most one post per day from these bots, and all the links seem to be related. It is far from being called a "spammer", and by adding content to the niche communities they provide a lot more value to the Fediverse than the terminally online who do nothing but complain about the others and/or only post about Trump and politics.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    So I'm gonna ignore that weird insult tangent you went on....

    The reason people consider it spam (even if a human clicks a button):

    There are "services" that pull every post from somewhere, and either automatically post it, or put it into a queue that a human then decides if they want to hit "post".

    When down from places like reddit, that is a problem because it drowns out every post a human saw organically and wanted to share. That is curation, that a live human on the site saw it and wanted to share

    An account that posts everything it sees somewhere else, drowns that out and lowers the percentage of posts where genuine engagement will happen.

    Especially on a small site, that fractures the user ase between all the threads. And the same amount of people are spread to thin.

    When a fediverse account does that to repost stuff already on the fediverse but just a different instance, it's also unnecessarily propagating the server load, but still fracturing the user base.

    Instead of a single conversation happening, now there's a dozen threads all of the place with one person feeling like the fediverse is empty.

    I can answer more questions if you want, but if you just keep throwing around insults, I'm just going to block

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Some people just blindly hate whatever they think communism so much, based on what fascist empires have vomited into their brains for a century, they will fanatically support that same fascism, despite it leaving them jobless, homeless, hungry, and dying from lack of affordable treatment for easily treated illness, without a tooth in their heads, because they can't afford regular dental care. Or if they are surviving, will condem their compatriots and neighboring ststes to that li because, "FU, I got mine!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    An account that posts everything it sees somewhere else, drowns that out and lowers the percentage of posts where genuine engagement will happen.

    And this is not happening. cm0002 posts are not drowning anything.

    Especially on a small site, that fractures the user ase between all the threads.

    Not all users care about all the threads. Most users care about finding content that is relevant to their specific interests.

    When a fediverse account does that to repost stuff already on the fediverse

    Where in the Fediverse is that content? Again, the links I am seeing from cm0002 seem to be (a) relevant to the community and (b) bringing new content.

    EDIT: you are right, the bot is pulling content from .ml communities and re-homing them. I wasn't this because my instance is not following that many stuff from .ml and I tend to favor the topic-specific instances. That explains why I wasn't seeing content as "duplicated". Sorry about that.

    if you just keep throwing around insults

    I honestly had not seen your profile before, and I had to check your history to see what about my comment would be insulting. I'm sorry. I would never guess that my example ended up describing you.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    EDIT: you are right, the bot is pulling content from .ml communities and re-homing them.

    It has started doing other instances too. Unsure what the new criteria is, but it no longer is ml alone.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    It still qualifies as spam if the result of posting is to overwhelm and drown out authentic and organic behavior.

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