most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up. I mean- am I wrong here?thoughts? opinions?

  • Neato
    2•1 year ago

    I haven’t seen any bots but maybe I just don’t know what they look like. How are the bots posting?

    • e0qdk
      2•1 year ago

      My understanding is that Lemmy bot accounts generally do not federate over to kbin. If you want to see an example of a bot making regular posts, you can check out shinobu@ani.social. Prior to the lemmy.ml/ani.social defederation it posted in anime@lemmy.ml – i.e. go to https://lemmy.ml/c/anime sort by new and look like 10-ish pages back (currently) and you should see a bunch of bot posts (sometimes drowning out posts from real people). You can see it posting to https://ani.social/c/episode_discussion currently as well; there are a lot of bot threads and very few comments. When the bot had an outage a while ago (prior to the defederation) there was a discussion with various opinions on the bot and how/if it should operate. I think I’ve also seen another thread about it as well with more discussion, but I’m having trouble finding it again.

      Edit: Just remembered another example. @ITNbot is a kbin bot (on a non kbin.social instance); you can see its behavior here – https://kbin.social/m/ImproveTheNews@fedinews.net – I blocked it a while back since seeing all its threads in new was bugging me at the time.

      • Neato
        1•1 year ago

        Oh wow, that’s severe. In those cases the bots are just posting news articles or announcements. It makes the community seem active but there’s practically no engagement. It seems like the communities would just be dead without them.