yesterday I caught an #AI bot being used to send #marketing replies to anyone discussing solar power infrastructure.

The admins of the instance yoinked the bot account very quickly indeed, and I'm not sure what whoever was running it hoped to achieve, although I do wonder if they were simply using #Fediverse as their test resource before they tried it in production (so this is something all #FediAdmins will have to keep a sharp eye out for)

I have recently created two tools for promoting your favorite fediverse communities. (And you can even use them together!)

The first one lets you create a customizable invitation page with your favorite apps and starter packs (collections will be supported soon!): https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/

And also the Join the Fediverse zine, with the last page allowing you to link to your custom invitation.

https://jointhefediverse.net/zine

Hope you will all find these useful!

#fediverse #community #zine #FediverseZine #JoinTheFediverse #JoinTheFediverseZine #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

Applauding @admin for taking a strong, well-argued stand on this.

Can we get more admins onboard?

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

Experimenting a bit more with the Fediverse Invitation page based on lessons learned from https://communities.jointhefediverse.net.

Ideally, all the extra information would be included in the server metadata, but until then, maybe server admins interested in using this project can reach out and I can add it manually?

Eg, for mastodon.social: https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=mastodon.social&apps=1,2,3,5

Data: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-invite/blob/main/data/communities/mastodon.social.json

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

Das FediCamp geht in die nächste Runde!

https://friendica.rollenspiel.monster/display/b2e8d1f0-5669-f64d-bac1-356357241793

Heads up #fediadmins. There is a Mastodon MCP server now. This is going to make it a lot easier for the techbros to get LLM based bots on Fedi.

https://f.cz/@vitexsoftware/116500373917482035

We will continue to suspend LLM based bots that we discover and will defederate from instances if/when it becomes a moderation problem on them.

#FediverseIsForPeople

So, I don't know what do with this one. We have another #AI agent / #bot that is sitting out here, scanning our messages, and has nothing about consent, or any guidelines for its usage on the #fediverse.

The owner is @andro_abhi - who has a profile, but nothing about their bot really posted anywhere (other than they are the owner of this #aiagent).

IMO - it looks like a #fediblock to me... At least that is my approach to it for now. I also think it's time the #fediadmins to get together and try to build a consistent set of guidelines around AI usage on the fediverse.