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Lemmy content aggregator bot list (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 year ago by iso@lemy.lol to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/778691

While I want to block content bots, I don't want to block useful bots like @CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world @remindme@mstdn.social. Because of this, I will block them one by one. I am sharing it here for community benefit. Any addition/removal is welcome.

@linkbot@lemmy.link

@bot@lemmit.online

@KensandRssBot@lemmy.kensand.net

@PostBot@chat.maiion.com

@lemmybot@lemmy.staphup.nl

@philly_bot@fanaticus.social

gist for programmatic use: https://gist.github.com/ismailkarsli/0c6c7aa4f70d1905adea1b30271f16f7

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[–] iso@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not identical much. Maybe we can assume that those who are marked as bots and share around 10-100 posts as bots.

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. 2nd idea I've got is that if no one is replying after say 24hrs and something like 75-80% of your posts are as such and you have at least 100 such posts, you get added to the list?

Main concern I see about something like this is false positives and how someone real could end up getting blocked.

I definitely want to think on this some more but it might have some legs.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think

flagged as bot
doesn't responds in n hours
has n numbers of posts in last n hours or overall

is sufficient to determine a user is a content aggregator bot. Bot flag is an important indicator here. Like the biggest false positive would be ban a multi-purpose bot that also has content aggregation feature.