• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    FYI 90% of those bots are scrapers and natural automation tools which are harmless.

    • hemmes@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, and bots are software setup and configured by humans to do things for humans. It’s still kind of humans using the internet, just not actively at the keyboard.

  • snownyte@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    The internet is ‘dead’ anyways, what’re you talking about?

    People frequent like the same 5 sites anymore. Privacy is clinging onto a thread. Porn has too much influence and control in terms of content. Users are two-faced pricks at a given turn. Too many verification/captcha systems. Too much data farming. Flat, dull and feature-less website designing. Anything that was remotely good got shut down or plugged with ads.

    The bots are just the death knoll.

    Oh, remember the time when people once thought that bots on the internet was a conspiracy theory? Bet they feel like fools now. Like in this report here

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The internet is ‘dead’ anyways

      It’s Eternal September like it always has been. I’m enjoying Lemmy. Maybe your post was written by an AI, in which case, “Jolly good show!”

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Eh, most of those will just be scrapers, and fediverse inter-server communication is technically a bot.

  • Sundray@lemmus.org
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    9 months ago

    I’m sure it’ll be fine… oh, totally unrelated: has any one been on Usenet lately?