this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
34 points (85.4% liked)

Lemmy Bots and Tools

461 readers
28 users here now

Welcome to the programming.dev lemmy development community! This is a place to discuss and show off bots, tools, front ends, etc. you're making that relate to lemmy

Theres another version of this community over at lemm.ee if you want to subscribe to that one as well

Icon base by DarkZaitzev under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Ategon@programming.dev
bugsmith@programming.dev
34
Russian bots are out of control, how can we fight back? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by JokeDeity@lemm.ee to c/lemmy_dev@programming.dev
37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

You won't be able to do a thing without some level of invasion of privacy (phone # verification would probably be the best).

We're unfortunately rapidly approaching the point where we have to make a decision A) a little invasion or B) allowing bots to roam free and spread propaganda across all major social platforms. Even if you choose path A it's up to the platform to implement it properly. See tiktok the racism and propaganda there has SKYROCKETED since being "allowed" to stay in the US (backdoor agreements to allow propaganda bots)