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  3. It’s been a year or two since I last looked at the federated timeline.

It’s been a year or two since I last looked at the federated timeline.

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  • moss@beige.partyM This user is from outside of this forum
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    It’s been a year or two since I last looked at the federated timeline. I remember it being a flood of nonsense and Japanese posts. This time, it’s almost all bot accounts! No exaggeration 9 out of 10 posts were automated.
    #fediverse

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    • moss@beige.partyM moss@beige.party

      It’s been a year or two since I last looked at the federated timeline. I remember it being a flood of nonsense and Japanese posts. This time, it’s almost all bot accounts! No exaggeration 9 out of 10 posts were automated.
      #fediverse

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      @Moss It's a losing battle. You can defederate/suspend known bot accounts or entire instances but they just pop up again and again.

      The only way to really combat this would be to disable federation and become a silo.

      However, I am surprised beige.party hasn't disabled the live timelines, especially for unregistered users.

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        @Moss It's a losing battle. You can defederate/suspend known bot accounts or entire instances but they just pop up again and again.

        The only way to really combat this would be to disable federation and become a silo.

        However, I am surprised beige.party hasn't disabled the live timelines, especially for unregistered users.

        moss@beige.partyM This user is from outside of this forum
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        @WestFox35 it’s kind of amazing how little of that flood of automation leaks into the local and home timelines though. Almost the only times I see bots are because of a hashtag I follow, or someone boosting them.

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          @WestFox35 it’s kind of amazing how little of that flood of automation leaks into the local and home timelines though. Almost the only times I see bots are because of a hashtag I follow, or someone boosting them.

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          @Moss Yeah, which is why I'm surprised the live feeds are still enabled on your instance. Even mastodon.social has disabled them 😉

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