• mark@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Right, and what’s even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they’re bots posing as people.

    That’s arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

    But they’ll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

    “Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”. What a crazy world we live in.

    • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      “Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”.

      Textbook big brother stuff. We’re in 1984 but the corpos are the ones providing the daily hate