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.
I’ve noticed that a lot of ai slop exists in dedicated instances, so the first answer is to just block those. Dunno of blocking whole instances also blocks cross-posts from said instance but it’s the first step in the journey of 1000 miles.
Bots tend to have flair stating they’re bots, which makes them easier to block. And since lemmy preaches open-source like gospel, you can probably write some optional code for specific lemmy clients that auto blocks that stuff for you
You can block properly flaired bots in your user settings.