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Hi: @gargon and everyone: take a look at this whitepaper I wrote with a DC think tank. How many of these ideas do you think could be built into #mastodon? #mastodev

Esp: 1. that any full #bots need to register and are marked as bots

2. That any scripted posts need to identify as "posted by a robot"

Would seem we could light the way and show what it would look like to do things that Twitter has not, and is invested by bots and such as a result.

http://ndn.org/bots

A Primer on Social Media Bots And Their Malicious Use In U.S. Politics

This full paper is in PDF format, and can be found through the links in the text below or at the bottom of the page.  Tens of millions of malicious bots – automated accounts programmed to tweet or post in a manner masquerading as humans – infest our social media platforms, and many are being used deceptively for political purposes.

Sep 16, 2017 at 8:07pmWeb
Show thread@[email protected]Sep 16, 2017
Also: would be very interested in ways that Mastodon could be made a better place for non-malicious bots and a worse place for malicious ones.
Show thread@[email protected]Nov 19, 2018
Circling back: having returned to Mastodon after a bit. Has there been any work on how to encourage better non-malicious bots and discourage-reduce malicious ones on the platform? cc: @[email protected] #mastodon #mastodev
Show thread@[email protected]Sep 17, 2017
To #Mastodev folks - any thoughts? What is the best way I can recommend some of these features for consideration?
Show threadwhimsy patrol 💭Nov 10, 2017
@Tchambers it would be also be nice perhaps to be able to mark an account as “may or may not be a bot” for those of us doing Turing tests 😀
Show thread@[email protected]Nov 19, 2018
@ephemerae Agreed.
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 20, 2019
@Tchambers you wrote their username wrong