I just found a account where it’s comments are all the same stuff over and over again. It seems like spam bot. I thought only reddit had a bot problem but maybe Lemmy has it too?
Here’s the account: https://lemmy.world/u/circuitai
How did I find it
So, for those wondering how I found it:
I first come across that account on https://lemmy.world/c/BestOfAi
Here’s the comment that caught my attention:
Maybe Captchas could help against automated calls or something?
As a human being, I failed at most Captchas (blurry images with bikes, buses…)
Bots can solve captchas more accurately and more efficiently than humans. For example, I use the browser extension Captcha Buster to solve Google Captchas for me. Nowadays websites instead use proof-of-work “captchas”, which require the visitors’ devices to solve cryptographic challenges (similar to bitcoin mining). This is why they sometimes takes a few seconds to complete (even more on low end smartphone / battery saving mode). But even those only slow down, not prevent bot access.
Yup short of some insane surveillance of all users, there’s just no way to prevent bots. So the only action we can take is stay vigilant and report any bot activities and clean up as much as we can.