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Re:GitHub Spam by worldsayshi on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:20PM (#39171370)
I hope there are other ways. Although I suspect that the communities you're thinking about are somewhat niche? I guess that would only motivate a small amount of investment for setting up spambots and a little resistance is enough to move on. If this explanation is not enough I also wonder what the explanation would be?

I also suspect that the barrier for spamming absolutely everywhere is going to get lowered as soon as somebody figures out how to make LLM:s configure spambots for arbitrary domains?

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Re:GitHub Spam by internetter on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:48PM (#39171576)
> Although I suspect that the communities you're thinking about are somewhat niche?

Reddit, for instance, in my experience, has been remarkably spam bot free, though the dead internet theory is very prevalent in culture there

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Re:GitHub Spam by worldsayshi on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:09PM (#39180897)
I don't understand your comment; if reddit is part of the dead internet then it is full of spam bots no? Or are you saying that users perceive that most other users are bot when they are not?
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