BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense
TL;DR below. When we [announced the BotDefense project in 2019](https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/e18056/ann
https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefenseiswrappingupoperations/
145,000 banned bot accounts...over 10,000 banned in January alone.
It's sad this is what Reddit has become.
The saddest part of all this is the countless hours of work unpaid people have poured into the site, moderating, developing, and content creating only to see it end the manner it has.
I'm okay leaving it behind. I didn't contribute much over the 12 years I was there. I mostly lurked. I'm just sorry for all the people that worked hard to make the community better.
Well, things always end eventually. The important thing is that Reddit was good while it lasted.
Honestly, spez and the Reddit C-suite and board are in the process of finding out that a lot of what made their platform so good and popular was run almost entirely by community power users, enthusiasts, and developers, in addition to all the obvious utility and value that mods provided.
This makes me wonder how robust kbin and lemmy's tools for this sort of thing are. Anyone know?
It might be something to bring up on kbinMeta. I haven't seen anything yet regarding bot tools for either instance.
Haven't seen anything of this sort yet on Lemmy as well. We didn't even have a moderator tools as of now. We might see it develop if there's bot problem.
if there’s bot problem
When there is a bot problem
Well, Reddit doesn't need that.
I'm sure things will go swimmingly without them.
On mobile, the link kicked me to a different post. https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/
From the post: TL;DR With the API changes now in place, we no longer believe we can effectively perform our mission so we are sunsetting BotDefense. We recommend keeping BotDefense on as a moderator through October 3rd so any unbans can be processed.
The link is fixed in the post body. I don't get this at all. I only copied the BotDefense link which is available through clicking the title, yet it pasted the next post from Reddit in the post body? Weird, but the link is fixed.
Thanks for mentioning it!
Things are about to get real messy. It makes you realise how much free work goes into reddit and the community only for the higher ups thinking they can treat everyone like shit and make decisions purely for greed, while thinking it won’t damage communities within the site.
In January of 2023, we added an incredible 10,070 bots to our ban list
Holy crap. Reddit really is about to be overrun by bots and AI talking amongst themselves.
I hope some of the bot defense team come to the fediverse. They are cool people.