• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    A ton of current content is produced by spam bots. As I understand it, the new changes will also affect these bots, so curious to see what will happen.

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      1 year ago

      Somehow I doubt the actual spambots have applied for a developer API key. They’ll be fine.

      • usernotfound@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if they had, actually.

        Still, a spam bot can just use the free license - they won’t make nearly as much api requests as a proper app would.

        The ones that make 60 posts per account per hour are easy to detect no matter how they post.