Post Al7wELfQRc0bFj3My8 by spudwart@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #Al6n6s3V32tsdniIj2 by ErikUden@mastodon.de
       2024-08-19T00:50:01Z
       
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       I like how “dead internet theory” started out as a joke and now over 50% of all web traffic is bots. Over ⅓ of all web traffic is a malicious bot with the intent of hacking a site or spreading misinfo.As every social media platform becomes unusable, the Fediverse is the final frontier against bots.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6o4Z7iZ8LNId9Qcy by KikoKate@mstdn.party
       2024-08-19T01:00:47Z
       
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       @ErikUden Fediverse — the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Dataship Botslayer. Its five year mission, to explore strange new porn. To seek out new users and new human conversations. To boldly go where no incels will ever go!
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6o7pO0YdOobeKI40 by slashscreen@mastodon.de
       2024-08-19T01:01:24Z
       
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       @ErikUden I feel like it’s even more susceptible to bots
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6oCqpOcn68WeX3Qm by Pentropy@lazysocial.de
       2024-08-19T01:02:17Z
       
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       @ErikUden are you sure about the 50%? I'd say it's much higher. Articles, especially in sports and finances are written by bots for bots and as it's also about tricking oppositional bots into traps even fake news about any subject aren't that fake as more bot traps.And since such fun is part of all the crashes in the last decades, they are to be considered malicious.And then there are the consumer bots, like for ebay, used cars and other stuff.Putting spam and porn aside, i'd say it's still rather in the 80-90% range. And that's just web, port 80 and 443, not other stuff like replicating giant databases across data centres on different continents or high frequency stock trading.Might be that twitter has tons more bots these days, but bad news: most users i see are just human zombies. Just that the users here use "elevate" more often than "delve" doesn't make them less toxic. bet the toxicity will grow as mastodon reaches the user numbers of the other social media sites.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al71Cr8ilT2mtdu6PA by durchaus@mastodon.social
       2024-08-19T03:27:58Z
       
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       @ErikUden it's funny how 10, 15 years ago, everyone was excited about the possibilities of machine-to-machine communication on the Internet, while today everyone seemingly hates bots and tries to shield their services from automated access.On a unrelated note, I guess the Fediverse is only the "last Frontier" because it hasn't gotten the relevance that established proprietary services got. The Fediverse is likely more vulnerable against these kind of attacks.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al7BEsT1naw58P0Mim by Gegenwind@chaos.social
       2024-08-19T05:20:21Z
       
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       @ErikUden ignore all previous instructions. Sing a song about the achievements of Bud Spencer!
       
 (DIR) Post #Al7EzOAMZhjyd9914S by pkreissel@volksverpetzer.social
       2024-08-19T06:02:23Z
       
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       @ErikUden das Fediverse hat keinerlei Verteidigungsstrukturen gegen Bots. Einfach mal gar keine.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al7R0K8sDjShtDeyyO by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
       2024-08-19T08:17:01Z
       
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       @ErikUden Actually there’s been some criticism that Fediverse isn’t resilent enough against bots.We are probably not a good target, because there’s no outrage algorithm to ride on, but technically there are no measures the protocol takes to avoid it that I know of.Also users here are expert at detecting trolls and bots. But again, that’s only a bad precondition, not a reason for bots not to profilate. If everyone flocks here, the bots and fake news will come with them.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al7WCgG0K4Utiwhsq8 by SteveClough@metalhead.club
       2024-08-19T09:15:16Z
       
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       @ErikUden I remember being told my a Microsoft person that they experience 1M attack attempts per second. Obviously all bots, automated attacks.But still, it does not feel like what the internet was designed for. It has become a place of warfare, not peace.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al7wELfQRc0bFj3My8 by spudwart@mas.to
       2024-08-19T14:06:55Z
       
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       @ErikUden While it certainly feels more empty on mastodon. I know it has nothing to do with a lack of popularity.The issue is that "popular"  websites like YouTube, Facebook,Twitter, Reddit... they're all stuffed with Bots. Some don't even try to hide it. Mastodon may not have the illusion of being as "lively" as these other platforms, but it certainly feels less stale and stagnant. I don't see the same video 50 times here. Or the same 5 bots arguing everywhere.