PrivateNoob to Lemmy Support@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoI want to post with a Lemmy bot, but where can I authenticate?imagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up110arrow-down1imageI want to post with a Lemmy bot, but where can I authenticate?PrivateNoob to Lemmy Support@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
Where can I get the auth key or is this just the password of the registered bot? Also what is honeypot good for?
minus-squareRoundSparrow@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI know what a honeypot is ;) It exists outside computing, such as spy vs. spy. What I have no idea of is what Lemmy does internally with a honeypot post it creates. Auto-report comments on them?
minus-squaremarsara9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agohttps://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/d909f3455ddb89d45f35c78c4ce96bd0896469b1/crates/api_common/src/utils.rs#L302 If the honeypot is set the request is simply discarded.
I know what a honeypot is ;) It exists outside computing, such as spy vs. spy.
What I have no idea of is what Lemmy does internally with a honeypot post it creates. Auto-report comments on them?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/d909f3455ddb89d45f35c78c4ce96bd0896469b1/crates/api_common/src/utils.rs#L302
If the honeypot is set the request is simply discarded.