I have read a few people mention it being an issue on here, but now I am starting to see it myself, blatant bots posting really crappy AI images. I do not want this to turn into Facebook with shrimp Jesus, so I’m just wondering what can be done to prevent bots from polluting the airwaves here. Any ideas, or work being done on this front?
Only insofar as instance mods are already “centralised control of the Fediverse”.
If this is something that individual instances can opt out of then it doesn’t solve the “bot problem.”
It definitely does. You just defederate from the instances that don’t do something to avoid bots.
That stops bots for a particular instance, assuming they guessed right about which accounts were bots. It doesn’t stop bots on the Fediverse.
You only need to stop it on your own instance. You can’t do anything else anyway. Users will go to the instances that aren’t flooded with bots.
Yes, this is my fundamental point. The Fediverse doesn’t have tools for Fediverse-wide censorship, nor should it.