







a bot that posts trending links
upvote.at/upbot.upvote.at
bot app that registers upvotes when you mention @upvote.at in a post
upvote.at
Atmospheric upvotes: an AT Protocol native link aggregator. Upvoting a link shares it, and every upvote is a record in your own PDS.

What is a bot? | Learning Center
An Internet bot is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet, ranging from helpful crawlers to malicious attackers.

Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection
Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...

Russian Bot Traffic drops to near 0 after strike
1.5K votes, 122 comments. 1.3M subscribers in the sysadmin community. A reddit dedicated to the profession of Computer System Administration.
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.

Commence the Botwatch | Botwatch Blog
Bots were already a pain online when they were little more than if-then scripts. Now a tidal wave of slop is swamping the internet as big tech companies profit. OpenAI and the rest would love for you to believe they care about "alignment" and "values" while their AI models damage our communities, both online and off. It's time to fight back.

Inside chatbots’ year of growing pains: 'We’re at an inflection point' | MarTech
Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed.

AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report
Bots now dominate the internet, accounting for over half of all traffic, with 40% classified as malicious.AI is erasing the line between legitimate and maliciou

Want to know more about the recent bot activity, what we've seen, and what we've done/are doing? Check out our write-up here! ✒️ 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/increased-bot-activity-what-w… Special mentions: @revfox84.bsky.social, @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu, @bmann.ca, and @baileytownsend.dev.
Increased Bot Activity & What We're Doing About It
blog.tophhie.cloudI've moved the @upvote.at changes to production! Now with - comments and threading - mention notifications - record attribution (someone else posts your @standard.site post? It'll show up on your profile!) - improved @upvote.at (the bot) integration - ui improvements - performance improvements