There are a few that import Reddit posts, but there are also settings to block bots; maybe yours is set to on? But I don’t ever see bots in the comments, which is fine with me.
I’m sure .ml is loaded with bots. I’m currently chatting with a person who thinks Russia is a brilliant strategist for selling oil at a steep discount.
I’m sure .ml is loaded with bots. I’m currently chatting with a person who thinks Russia is a brilliant strategist for selling oil at a steep discount.
With pipeline stuff? Sure. There’s an infrastructure cost involved in switching sources. With tanker and rail stuff? Nah, it’s comparatively trivial to switch suppliers. Unfortunately for Russia, the most obvious declines are from pipeline sales in the first year of the war. The rest have decreased too, but those are the ones where you can just wave your hand at the graph and it’s obvious. They basically can’t afford to sell at market rate because their oil comes with too many indirect costs to the buyer at the moment.
Same experience here. I don’t think I’ve seen a bot in the comments yet, different story on Reddit thats for sure. And when I tried the recent Digg reboot, I’m pretty sure every second or third account was a bot
There used to be PipedVideoBot who would reply to every comment containing a YouTube link with a piped.video version. It was quite annoying, people who prefer Piped usually have a redirect set up to an instance of their choice, while others use no proxy but alternative frontends like NewPipe, Grayjay or Revanced.
I also did automation on another account of mine, posting an entry from Random Tan Studio’s “Humanization” series on !morphmoe@ani.social every day. No AI except waifu2x to upscale (the images were created as quite low-res bitmaps and looked very blurry when rescaled, which almost all modern clients do). I didn’t consider it a bot account since I would log in myself almost every day and react to comments.
so I moved to Lemmy because of the api changes… but there’s no bots on Lemmy either…?
There are a few that import Reddit posts, but there are also settings to block bots; maybe yours is set to on? But I don’t ever see bots in the comments, which is fine with me.
No financial incentive for it lol
Yet.
I’m sure .ml is loaded with bots. I’m currently chatting with a person who thinks Russia is a brilliant strategist for selling oil at a steep discount.
Those people are sadly real.
I’m sure .ml is loaded with bots. I’m currently chatting with a person who thinks Russia is a brilliant strategist for selling oil at a steep discount.
To be fair. It could be. In an evil Uber or door dash sort of way. Sell at a loss, make infrastructure dependent on it, hike up prices.
Do I think it will be or is way more like they are desperate for cash? Prolly
Walmart does the same. Pushes out all the local grocers first.
With pipeline stuff? Sure. There’s an infrastructure cost involved in switching sources. With tanker and rail stuff? Nah, it’s comparatively trivial to switch suppliers. Unfortunately for Russia, the most obvious declines are from pipeline sales in the first year of the war. The rest have decreased too, but those are the ones where you can just wave your hand at the graph and it’s obvious. They basically can’t afford to sell at market rate because their oil comes with too many indirect costs to the buyer at the moment.
The bots people are generally worried about don’t announce themselves to be bots.
Same experience here. I don’t think I’ve seen a bot in the comments yet, different story on Reddit thats for sure. And when I tried the recent Digg reboot, I’m pretty sure every second or third account was a bot
There used to be PipedVideoBot who would reply to every comment containing a YouTube link with a piped.video version. It was quite annoying, people who prefer Piped usually have a redirect set up to an instance of their choice, while others use no proxy but alternative frontends like NewPipe, Grayjay or Revanced.
I also did automation on another account of mine, posting an entry from Random Tan Studio’s “Humanization” series on !morphmoe@ani.social every day. No AI except waifu2x to upscale (the images were created as quite low-res bitmaps and looked very blurry when rescaled, which almost all modern clients do). I didn’t consider it a bot account since I would log in myself almost every day and react to comments.