Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
Thank you for understanding, I’m sorry if I came off combative myself. I would like to point out that the service you are providing is certainly useful. Personally, I’m only interested in seeing content that is parsed by a human and posted because of the natural interest around it. Otherwise, things get posted so fast and across enough communities that it drowns out all real and natural discussion in my subscription feed. That doesn’t mean other people won’t see and interact with these posts, and it doesn’t mean they don’t help grow a community. The nature of the fediverse itself seems to be a little messy, and sometimes people see different things even within the same community.
It might be nice for there to be a more fine-toothed control over what type of bot an account is flagged as, and what types of bots an individual user might see. I’ve disallowed viewing bot accounts since day one, mostly to avoid inane joke response bots as they were so prevalent on reddit. That’s going to be a problem long term, because automoderators were a critical aspect of moderating larger communities.
I did the same thing for the same reason, and was my initial reasoning for not marking L4s. When I read “bots” my initial thought was the useless pun bots, or autocorrect bots, etc.
My plan to make mine different was if someone didn’t receive a comment back on a less visible post, to comment back on L3s to keep conversations going, as the communities I’ve focused on are ones I enjoyed on [website we don’t name] and genuinely enjoyed engaging there. I did that semi-successfully, but didn’t consider that the majority of people wouldn’t want to even see a content bot, and that was my mistake.
Pride put to the side, lesson learned and hopefully L4s can continue to help.