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Lemmy Bots and Tools

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Russian bots are out of control, how can we fight back? (lemm.ee)
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Every social media site is overrun by hundreds of Russian bots, some worse than others (Meta products). What can we do to combat this? Should those of us who don't want to live in a fascist dictatorship be running our own bot farms? Something has to be done to change the iron grip they have on the narrative of history and reality to the common man.

How can I make leftist bots to fight this plague?

Edit:

ITT: "Why you think it Russian bot, comrade? Russia never hack!"

There's enough available research to show that Russia is running massive bot programs, you're either living under a rock, ignorant, or it benefits you to deflect from the issue.

Edit 2: The user with the name like dimesix (I've blocked them) has gone through and downvoted all the comments he could on my profile. I wonder why this thread upsets him to such a degree that he'd do that?

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[โ€“] yogsototh@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I buikt a minimal bot some time ago on reddit. It was very simple. It reacted with predefined response when it detected specific terms.

While it was mostly made for a joke. I was surprised how efficient this was. I received mostly positive return as well as some infuriating responses. Still this was effective.

The current platform appears to actively prefer the russian bot presence. So an option might be to provide a FOSS bot maker that anyone could easily use that will also have the property to be easy to not be detected immediately as a bot.

Then these bots should both counter russian bots and promote this bot creation tool or even platform (bit a platform would certainly be easier to detect and block).

But by doing so, the dead Internet is closer than ever.

Code: https://git.esy.fun/yogsototh/redbot

See stack.yaml file for the env var to set. If you run it it should start a web interface. And you can create new bots from there.