We think this can shake up social media
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We think this can shake up social media
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@Gargron Concerned there might be something fishy and novel going on here.
This is a network of bots boosting each other to the front page of .socials’s popular feed, despite none of the folks boosting it being on this instance. They’re all coming from a bespoke one. I’ve seen it a few times this week.
The result is basically an ad and I’m wondering 1) what underlying system causes this to happen and 2) if it represents undesirable behavior from your perspective as an engineer/admin.
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Hi, hope you're doing well,
We can see where some of the confusion creeps in here so just wanted to help straighten things out - this is definitely not an engagement farming bot network!
Our Community Feeds pick up posts from the main @newsmast account which we use to communicate with users of our app and Community Feeds. 1/2
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@Gargron @Haste
Hi, hope you're doing well,We can see where some of the confusion creeps in here so just wanted to help straighten things out - this is definitely not an engagement farming bot network!
Our Community Feeds pick up posts from the main @newsmast account which we use to communicate with users of our app and Community Feeds.
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@Gargron @Haste
We post to all Communities in the Newsmast app as we have users spread across all 62 Communities and want to ensure everyone gets the same information.We'd be more than happy to chat with the Mastodon team in detail about how this works - and why it might be affecting .social's popular feed as a side effect. Thanks! 2/2
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@Gargron @Haste What I find very worrying it that it promotes extreme far right propaganda like Fox News under the banner of news. The executive of Fox News admitted in court they are not a legitimate news outlet. This is undermining democracy in the US, Canada and elsewhere. While I understand the concerns of censorship there should also be a standard applied as to labelling factual news vs entertainment/propaganda.
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@Snowshadow CC: @Gargron @Haste
Hi, we appreciate your concerns.
Our Community uses #press, which is used by many press.coop RSS feeds, to aggregate news content - same as many Fediverse instances & users interested in current affairs.
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@Snowshadow CC: @Gargron @Haste
Any content that breaks our community guidelines on mis / disinformation should be reported to our team and we will deal with it accordingly, regardless of the source. Please feel free to report anything specific we may have missed. We will keep sources that repeatedly disseminate harmful content under review.
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