The bots are annoying me so much that part of me wants to just beg Bluesky for a job so I can write some tools deal with them. But not in an Elon "I'm going to rid Twitter of bots" kind of way, in an "I actually understand how computers work" kind of way. - ThreadSky

malwaretech.com • 27 days ago

The bots are annoying me so much that part of me wants to just beg Bluesky for a job so I can write some tools deal with them. But not in an Elon "I'm going to rid Twitter of bots" kind of way, in an "I actually understand how computers work" kind of way.

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vmurr.bsky.social•27 days ago

Please do. Whatever system they're using can't even pick up on the rote bots all created at the same time & posting the *exact* same things.

*many exhausted sighs*

lec.social•27 days ago

You'd be a great addition.

oracularhades.com•27 days ago

You can be George hotz, fix all the problems with a one-liner

oracularhades.com•27 days ago

this tweet is so funny you'd think it was a shitpost but he was completely serious

oracularhades.com•27 days ago

but jokes aside, use this mute/block list. They're doing a lot behind the scenes to kill the bots. Their work + this list I don't even see them anymore. https://bsky.app/profile/automated-lists.bsky.social/lists/3ldh76so4fk2a

callmarcus.bsky.social•27 days ago

I wish I had my old Twitter block lists.

callmarcus.bsky.social•27 days ago

Maybe also write some tools to deal with phishing. Seems they just don’t get it in big companies.

may0ren.bsky.social•27 days ago

You should help them start the Bot Termination Council (BTC)

noorange.bsky.social•27 days ago

That was apparent when he attempted to tell us he had to rm his "woke mind virus". Elon is just a wallet to his companies and a bully to his employees, sorry serfs.

pallwall.bsky.social•27 days ago

If you do this, I will be left with like 5 followers. I am fine with that sacrifice, however, because the bots never like my banger skeets anyways.

secure-ics-ot.bsky.social•27 days ago

peadaromaoileoin.bsky.social•27 days ago

Genuine question. How do you stop them programmatically?

wolf.packetwolf.net•27 days ago

Likely you write programs that crawl posts/accounts and search for characteristics exhibited by bots.

If you find bot accounts have similarities, you can likely write algorithms to detect those similarities and flag accounts for review or removal.

daniel.abrecht.li•27 days ago

It's open source. If you can't do it now, you couldn't do it as an employee either.

kgsbca.bsky.social•27 days ago

I have to figure it’s bad for well-known users here if I have more followers than people I follow & maybe 3/4 are bots.

amypearlman.bsky.social•27 days ago

Do it. Or get them to start a project bounty or something.

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