Hate it? Yes. Respect people who use it? No.

Keeping bots and AI-generated content off Lemmy (an open-source, federated social media platform) can be a challenge, but here are some effective strategies:

1. Enable CAPTCHA Verification: Require users to solve CAPTCHAs during account creation and posting. This helps filter out basic bots.

2. User Verification: Consider account age or karma-based posting restrictions. New users could be limited until they engage authentically.

3. Moderation Tools: Use Lemmy’s moderation features to block and report suspicious users. Regularly update blocklists.

4. Rate Limiting & Throttling: Limit post and comment frequency for new or unverified users. This makes spammy behavior harder.

5. AI Detection Tools: Implement tools that analyze post content for AI-generated patterns. Some models can flag or reject obvious bot posts.

6. Community Guidelines & Reporting: Establish clear rules against AI spam and encourage users to report suspicious content.

7. Manual Approvals: For smaller communities, manually approving new members or first posts can be effective.

8. Federation Controls: Choose which instances to federate with. Blocking or limiting interactions with known spammy instances helps.

9. Machine Learning Models: Deploy spam-detection models that can analyze behavior and content patterns over time.

10. Regular Audits: Periodically review community activity for trends and emerging threats.

Do you run a Lemmy instance, or are you just looking to keep your community clean from AI-generated spam?

Because it matters

No. I specifically said what I did was stupid and asked you NOT to be a jerk.

Will do, thanks.

It’s down 27 points now and likely to go down a bit more. It’s not not BAD though.

I was worried it would tank though.

Experian says 795 now. I’ll be ok. I have no purchases coming up, so I’ll just wait it out.

I edited it. Thank for the tip.

Ok?

You’re being a jerk.

I can call myself dumb. When someone else does it and confirms it, it fucking sucks. I’m already having a hard time convincing myself not to shoot myself in the head.

No one hates me like me. I don’t need your help.

I’m Chidi Anagonye, or maybe I’m not?

I can agree to that.

I’ve never really needed credit or credit cards? I just pay cash.

I know. That’s why I said I’m stupid. I’m beating myself up enough. I know I’m fucking stupid and don’t deserve what I have. I don’t need some internet jerk to tell me how fucking stupid I am so they can feel good about themselves. Thanks, though.

gfy

What is A+ credit?

Because I talked to my wife and decided it wasn’t that big of a deal and made rash decisions based on the fact that I was sick of dealing with it. Everyone here is so smart and never made any mistakes before, so it’s hard to explain to them why I did it.

However, I am SOMEWHAT stupid. I’ve been rather frugal and financing things and credit cards haven’t really been at the top of my priorities over the years, so I’m rather ignorant of it. I try not to spend money I don’t have.