BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense

TL;DR below. When we [announced the BotDefense project in 2019](https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/e18056/ann

145,000 banned bot accounts...over 10,000 banned in January alone.

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This makes me wonder how robust kbin and lemmy's tools for this sort of thing are. Anyone know?
- Haven't seen anything of this sort yet on Lemmy as well. We didn't even have a moderator tools as of now. We might see it develop if there's bot problem.
  
  if there’s bot problem
  
  When there is a bot problem
It's sad this is what Reddit has become.
- The saddest part of all this is the countless hours of work unpaid people have poured into the site, moderating, developing, and content creating only to see it end the manner it has.
  
  I'm okay leaving it behind. I didn't contribute much over the 12 years I was there. I mostly lurked. I'm just sorry for all the people that worked hard to make the community better.
  
  True, but the communities are built around people not the platform. We are once again learning that no platform will be around forever, older people have seen it plenty of times already.
Things are about to get real messy. It makes you realise how much free work goes into reddit and the community only for the higher ups thinking they can treat everyone like shit and make decisions purely for greed, while thinking it won’t damage communities within the site.
Well, Reddit doesn't need that.

I'm sure things will go swimmingly without them.

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