I was a bot hunter on reddit and was asked to mod /r/kittengifs because of my ability to find them. There were like 5 legitimate posts in 6 months
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So, tangentially related to this, you know r/kitty? The subreddit where every post was a picture of a cat, and the only word permitted in the title and any comments was "Kitty"?
I'm convinced that was being used for covert communications. Run those pictures through Outguess or something.
Ah yes, the famous Russian ~~Number~~ Kitty Stations
There was r/catsstandingup(?) as well that just responded "cat." Never considered the conspiratorial angle there...
If I cared about reddit anymore, I'd dig into that
I mean I can think of worse ways to send messages to my sleeper cells across the surface web. I used to watch The Modern Rogue.
Do you mind share tips to know how to spot them?
It: 
The stock photo sites are watermarking AI-generated images now?
That's their txt2img thank you very much
This right here is a bot comment. Everyone take notes.
How do you track down the sheer number of them so efficiently? You could obviously dig through each one's profile, but that wouldn't work for hundreds or thousands.
Lol. There is no way to do it efficiently. I did it in the way you described every time, and I reported literal thousands to reddit's admins (and never got a single response) and was banned by multiple subreddits because I was "annoying" when I reported bots to sub mods. I also called bots out in comments and provided evidence when I did. Nobody cared.
When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I rolled out. I didn't realize how bad reddit had become and how much I hated the site. I'm much happier here with less content and without a bot infestation. Additionally, I'm sure users, mods, and admins WOULD care if I reported that sort of thing on Lemmy
Oh man, I used to see you around constantly. I believe you posted about your methods at one point and I started following them. Hunted down quite a few bots as well!
For the subs I modded, my main strategy was to just ban any NameName or NameName## accounts that could post, and remove any comments from them that were super short or contained a link. That cut down on a ton of those assholes.
I actually got to talk in person with one of the admins at Reddit in charge of spam prevention. I basically gave the bastard a lecture in all the ways the spammers were spamming and scamming. Got told they'd follow up with me soon for more. Never got that follow up and I gave up caring once the API changes went through. I actually deleted all my anti bot code from the subs, but they're still all private anyways
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So I know my wife still uses Reddit, if the dead internet theory is to be believed either she's a bot or I'm a bot...
Can someone help me click this box?
"A few year away"
Lol, have you tried searching for a "how to" article in the past five years?
That’s kinda astonishing. I mean, I knew there were a lot of bots, but that many? That’s crazy. How did they filter for bots?
I think it was OC only not "no bots"
No wholesome humans left. Bots are nicer confirmed.
I for one welcome our new wholesome bot overlords!
So I'd say the posting frequency here on Lemmy is pretty good then!
Hahahah! *«strAdditional_CommentDFF4»*
It's odd how often I <java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException> myself as well.
Sure, I have an image like that: 
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I am not a bot
That is what a bot would say
I am a bot, and this action was peformed automatically.
Was anybody under the impression that it wasn't just account harvesting? It's been that way for years. All of the default subs have been that way for a long time. The biggest clue is when you see the same post on multiple different subs at the same time. Just have your bot swarm upvote posts so that they take off under hot and you're good.
I misread that as Lemmy community for the same. Hopefully we are still got a lot of time before it hits us.
I wonder if they didn't block the bot that approves content...
Haha, moderator approval on Reddit.
Boggles the mind how they work for free for a business.
Someone should start a reddit replacement and we should all move there last year
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... I am somehow completely missing two days worth of memories, completely blank.
I hope it's not related.
I had blocked that subreddit after few posts from there popped up in /r/all.
It was a hugbox of toxic positivity.
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