I see bot accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.
This thread is their main explanation for why they’re reposting .ml communities:
No idea but I just block them. Maybe their intentions are well-meaning, maybe not, but I don’t want one person having so much say in what I see here.
It’s someone who doesn’t understand how the fediverse works and thinks bot spam is a we should be grateful for.
If you ask one of their ~20 accounts, you may get a copy/paste reply about how it’s somehow fighting lemmy.ml
None of it really makes any sense.
But they’re obviously not going to stop. So I just block them anytime I see one pop up.
The problem with what they’re doing, is the repost bots may post an article, and everyone who blocks spam bots won’t see it. If ahuman account posts it, it may be removed because the spam bot made a post no one saw because everyone blocked them already.
I’d assume someone that goes by “cm0002”. Not sure what you’re looking for here … their real name and address?
“I NEED SPIDERMANS IDENTITY! BRING ME SPIDERMAN!!!”
Sorry. Your comment just made me think of OP as J Jonah Jameson. I think I’m excited because I’m seeing the new spiderman movie in 2 hours.
No, I would be fine with some alt account that would be willing to talk about why and how they are doing the bots.
I didn’t know they were using bots now, but I can probably answer the “why”. They are on a crusade against .ml. It has being going on for a long time. Are a lot of the posts you see duplicates of content posted to some .ml community, but not using the actual cross-posting function?
yeah so when this person started their stuff I thought they were a bot but after conversing with them a bit I just block em. They are somene with mental issues such that they are bot like in behaviour. It was kinda funny how I encountered them because it was due to them reposting a comic I did and I got sorta sick of it showing up in my feed over mine. The thing is they would only repost mine. I asked them if they would post it every day and thus I would just not need to and they were like. no. only repost.
Holy crap, I am sorry you have to deal with this.
The more I hear stories like these, the less I believe that social media can ever be a net good to society.
I want to believe that the Fediverse could be a healthy alternative, but damn why is it that this place gets to be so much smaller than the corporate networks and yet feel just as toxic as them?
I started working on the Fediverse because I believed that normies could benefit from social media that is mot controlled by any corporation. Now I am starting to feel like the only winning move is not to play.
Just report to your admin the spam accounts problem solved (and report to the instance the account is hosted on)
I am the admin of the instance. I don’t think the posting is a problem.
It’s funny you described that account’s behavior as so abhorrent it might cause you to quit the fediverse, but also that you don’t have a problem with it.
I think it’s crazy to expose yourself to content that makes you upset but to each their own.
