Everyone on the Internet is a not except you.
Safest approach to stay sane.
Not this bot again.
I’m not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don’t need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.
There is a bot that posts nothing but links to reddit threads. I could block it or bots in general but then I won’t be able to downvote the posts it makes. It moderates the communities it posts to so reporting it would do fuck all.
AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.
Reddit used to get flooded with bots before elections. By 2024, they were just around all the time. I got permabanned after that, but it’s probably even worse by now.
I recently got Permabanned from Reddit because I reshared the Alex Pretti video back when that was happening. They also banned every other account for every person in my household because of their fingerprinting service going overboard.
Fuck Reddit.
You’re not missing anything. Reddit is the embodiment of Empty Internet Theory. If you’re a human posting on that site, you’re a statistical anomaly. And not for long, because everyone’s getting booted.
I got booted because:
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I said Peter Thiel should be turned to soup
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I said Th-iel should be turned to soup
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I said that I had previously been given a suspension for saying Peter Thiel should be turned to soup.
So now I’m redditless.
LOL! Thiel soup… guaranteed to cause the shits!
I got permabanned for saying a naughty thing about Stephen Miller.
Found old.lemmy.zip, signed up and haven’t missed a beat!
Care to post a recipe for that soup?
- Boiling Hydrofluoric acid Acid
- Peter Thiel
I’d hate to see what all the dick pills in Elon Musk’s bloodstream would do to a field of corn.
dent corn that’ll put a dent in you
My hungry pigs disagree with that advice
Your hungry pigs and professor acid soup can wait till I’m done. I only get one life to eat a human.
I dunno, what we’ve read they’ve done it before. Jerky and whatnot.
That rendering process better be thorough - prions survive in the soil.
Edit: hydrofluric acid probably isn’t very good for the soil either.Would prions survive the acid?
No. I really hadn’t thought my comment through.
You’re better for it.
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Its gotten really bad now that hidden profiles are a thing.
Hidden profiles?
Basically all comment history is hidden. Very popular with totally organic pro Maga accounts.
Basically all comment history is hidden.
Oh, actually I was forced to do that myself due to the slight possibility of doxxing, etc. Ten-year account over there that I still use, and traditionally I practice complete transparency. But the times, they is be changing…
Oh, actually there is a workaround (or at least there used to be). Add the acct in question as a “friend,” then click on the Friend stream. You’ll be able to see their content.
Just delete your account and start a new one. There is literally nothing that you gain from using an old account apart from increased risk.
As someone who has gotten banned by the admins for stupid reasons that should have been overturned but weren’t… Having a new account is a pain in the ass for a couple of months and/or until you build up karma.
It’s stupidly painful.
One can get banned for that, as well as the fact that you’re once again uploading info that might possibly be used against you in future. Even the Fediverse tracks its accounts as I understand it and makes one’s history semi-permanent.
The only true alternative I know is to take part in an accountless system or one which is heavily anonymized, like the ‘Chan’ stuff or whatever. For me it’s just far easier to tread lightly, and avoid certain topics.
The only true alternative is to just have more alts, one for specific interests where each each individual one is not enough to ban you. Platforms that clearly have thrived off of them should facilitate people using them instead of using it as an excuse to ban people when they want to.
It also doesn’t help when those platforms are deliberately trying to harvest as much personal data they can off of their users and often have engagement bait posts to get their users to get them to identify increasingly personal data about themselves that is otherwise nothing anyone would care about.
I’ve seen some links posted to sites that somehow manage to show comment history even for accounts with it hidden as well. Apparently the feature is pretty half baked.
hidden or deleted?
are you talking about the accounts that post once and then self-delete?
No. I’m talking about exactly what I said.
No there is just a major world event, a war in Iran, and people want to dump their angry hot takes about it incessantly. So you are going to have a big influx of people grandstanding about it being good or evil.
The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots
Some of the bots, on the other hand, are very easily distinguishable from humans. The one who’s profile I checked out was posting well-polished exactly bot-like political memes for the past few months at a rate that would be a full-time job for an unassisted human.
I’ve not yet noticed any deviations from the norm
Yeah I cant tell. Lots of accounts have history that are talking…so I dont think they are bots.
You can report if you want. Different instances will take different approaches.
I saw some obvious bots like a week ago, there are some among us for sure.
Maybe there’s more than usual, because of the Iran related stuff.
Maybe there’s just a higer percentage of neurospicy people on the fediverse.
I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the “bots” or “shills” or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I’ve yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they’re not to influence politics. The only actual bots I’ve seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.
I’m skeptical. I just think there is a higher percentage of people who use that label to justify their persecution complexes, which justify their anger/rage that they direct towards others.
even IRL I have seen a huge uptick the past few years of people, in casual conversation, self-diagnosing themselves with conditions to excuse their poor behaviours, or sometimes even their simple mistakes. I don’t understand any of it, personally. As far as I can tell mental health terminology has become basically slang at this point, whereas 10-20 years ago it was nonexistent in pop culture and casual speech.
This is just a long way to say “in my day, no one was so called ‘autistic’”
There is a massive difference between officially being diagnosed as being autistic and self-identifying as it.
What is messed up is people can’t acknowledge this, or act like this difference is oppressive and problematic.
You seem to think everyone has the option to become diagnosed but that’s not the case. I’ve tried to be diagnosed and literally doctors seem to avoid it. And I can actually afford doctors while many cannot.
I have mostly avoided self diagnosing myself as autistic but there are many signs of it. I shouldn’t be blamed if I did say I’m probably slightly autistic. I’m not sure why an internet rando would know more about my situation than I do.
literally everyone is slightly autistic. that is a useless classification.
it’s like saying have to eat food or you have to poop. so does litereally every other person who ever existed… it’s not a distinguishing aspect of any one person over another.
when you self-diagnose you are doing nothing more than taking a horoscope. i bet you are a ‘little bit of a Pieces’ too.
When I first responded, I thought you were only a little off from an opinion I might understand. I was wrong.
Also you contradicted the fuck out of yourself. You said of everyone is on the spectrum then no one is. So now you are nakedly foolish and ignorant.
Well, how am I supposed to keep up with “politically correct” terminology if “ploticially correct” terminology keeps changing every year?
I learned this term from a diagnosed autist last year (after refereling to her as “autist”). She told me she’s very active in that community and that this was a preffered term. Now you tell me it’s basically a dog whistle?
I’ll tell you what, I’m just gonna call everyone a dumbass and be done with it! Red Forman that shit.
Uh, “dumbass” has been used for decades to put people down who have intellectual deficiencies. This is 2026; you can’t call people dumbasses.
Cartman is still a fatass in 2026.
Or does he have a ‘lipid mass regulation deficiency’?
You aren’t supposed to keep up with that shit. It’s stupid.
Assuming it isn’t your professional job in some capacity.
My take is if people get offended at you not calling them some preferred nomenclature… they are assholes. Well-adjusted people typically don’t start a shitfit about such things. Nor is a single person’s testimony anything to make a broader assumption upon.
I very much would like to agree with that,but in my experience the effort/reward is worth it. As in, it’s only a little effort and it is very much appreciated. Even if you do it wrong every conversation, but cincerely promosie to do better next time. That still is appreciated.
It could be overused now where it wasn’t before. Or it could be where it was suppressed before. It may be somewhere in the middle. Which is better than being ignored and alienated, even if some use is more hype than realism.
I think we’re all on a spectrum in lots of different ways. Rainbows. Rainbows everywhere.
Saying we are all on the spectrum is the same as saying nobody is on it.
That’s why I’m skeptical. Saying you are autistic has no meaning anymore. Anyone could say it and believe it abotu themselves.
That’s VERY different than getting clinically diagnosed.
No he’s right. It s a spectrum and everyone is on it. That includes “perfectly average” is a dimension of that spectrum. Same goes for sexuality, it’s also a spectrum, so everyone’s at least a little bit gay.
I saw a couple that were obviously bots, when I looked at a news-relevant hashtag on mastodon today. I only noticed two, but that’s two more than usual.
I have noticed more personality posts stuff like relationship dramas but the phrasing in them is odd.
Also a few more agitators…they are quick to be in and quite snarky. Maybe it was always there and I didn’t notice it.
Either way that doesn’t sound fun :( stay safe!
Just my guess - meant to bait people into making various threats to see how well Palantir’s social media monitoring works at the fringes.
Be careful out there, y’all.
Some people block political threads, so all that’s left are those that don’t block them… which tends to be people who strongly believe in their opinions or want to use it as a soapbox to rant… so there’s rarely any just “chill” opinions or nuanced takes. Almost everyone on a political thread is gonna be angry at something… against one side, cheering for the destruction of one side… or both sides…
A bunch of the ABWD sleepers reactivated recently. I don’ think they are bots, but after a year of being very quiet, they all came out of their termite holes after being quiet for about a year.
