• Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    That night be there antibot automation. You can appeal if it wasn’t you. It’s their current attempt to try to combat some AI bots that have been around on Lemmy.

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        10 days ago

        Their design is making it easier to see what the mods/admins think is wrongthink then remove from there. Or if you don’t interact how they want. Then there’s the poorly written code.

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        10 days ago

        Kinda.

        Since Lemmy existed before Piefed, pretty much all the bot accounts were here. So their current system uses a database of flagged Lemmy accounts and if the name matches someone else who joins, then it automatically gets flagged too. I think they also check IP addresses at the moment, though I don’t know if they gave up on that or are still experimenting with it.

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            10 days ago

            Oh, for clarification - they’re not automating assessment of user interaction, rather of users who join, and afterwards checking that username to a database of flagged users on Lemmy. It’s to speed up the sign on process a bit more.

            Since it’s possible someone else might just happen to pick the same username as that in the database, then it’s possible to appeal and mention you’re not that person on Lemmy.

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              10 days ago

              they’re not automating assessment of user interaction

              But they are? That’s part of their mod tools to show those they want to allow.