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I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors.… (lemmy.world)
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Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

Do the RSS feed bots also repost comments? Because I think something like that would be nice to have (kinda like bridging Discord to Stoat), just preferably implemented by instance runners and marked and credited accordingly.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    They do not. Just the links. I think if it were to copy the comments it would be harmful to the community as you’d essentially be looking at a one-sided conversation. People could reply but you’d never get an answer back. I mean, if the source is linked in the description you could always just visit the original and read through them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I'd guess that would depend on whether the link was one-way or two-way (with a bot posting fedi comments back to Reddit).

    And yes, a one-way bridge would have its drawbacks, but I'd argue that this would still be a step up from just reposting the post, and incentivise making a Lemmy/Piefed account.

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