Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

They were doing surveys with the mods to see if they could tell between real and bot posts. I half wonder if it's by design and they seed their own bullshit with llms. That is my tiny tinfoil hat for the day. I do the surveys and feed them bad data then tell them they suck in the comments and they somehow have not banned me yet from them lol.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate them.

I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it's /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn't. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is smart. I would take that advice, but right now my subs are in maintence mode as a form of slactivism. I don't post I just check in to delete a spam bot every few days.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Still counts as "engagement":-)

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Poison pill enagement and to steal content. Also trying to protect others from misinformation as some of the subs I have, in theory, could be weaponised by monied interests. :) We do what we can.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

You would think that they would learn to distinguish the poisoned pills by the comments that say "you suck", but many automated tools really are they dumb.:-)

[–] wipe3257@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use autogenerated names from Bitwarden for my usernames everywhere XD

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

It did you dirty with this one lol

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago

Your name here isn't auto-generated? :P

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

I gave up on doing that after a few bans, coming up with an original username was getting difficult.

On here, you have more faith that you will be using the same name for a while.