Everyone on the Internet is a bot except you.
Safest approach to stay sane.
But, what if I am a bot and don’t know it?
Nothing would change.
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.
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.
oh yea the best of reddit one.
you could make a bot that downvotes their posts and still block them.
only way to stop a bad bot with a bot is a good bot with a bot.
Not this bot again.
I swear that cm0002 guy or whatever is a bot, because they go around cross-posting a lot of stuff here and there.
Lol nah, I just crosspost .ml (see below) and it’s all done by human hands, I’m just hooked into the RSS feed to deliver notifications to my phone + a good workflow
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
I’ve blocked that guy so many times for posting that dumbass Buckminster Burkwood AI slop over and over but they have an account on every single fucking instance apparently.
not as bad reddit
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.
palintir has been botting on reddit heavily recently.
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.
its easier to block them here then on reddit, where ever 1 bot is replaced by hundreds. its impossible, and i also heard that if you block over 1000+ they dont actually mute thier comments anymore.
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.
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…
i block the main politics.worlds.
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.
I’ve noticed a few, but nothing crazy. Just the occasional post where I can tell this is an automated account that isn’t marked as such, posting shit like short-captioned AI slop images 1-3 times a day, usually on Mastodon and not Lemmy.
lol. bots. as if us humans on the internet would not be real carbon based life forms from this planet. so funny.
Hahaha, yes fellow human, so true.
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.
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
- Peter Thiel
I don’t recommend eating the rich, due to Prions. It’d be better to render them and process them into fertiliser.
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
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.
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.
You’re better for it.
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The big and medium communities are lost. Small niche communities still have some good followings and timely content.
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.
Wow. It’s so fucking bad over there.
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.
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.
EDIT: Downvote away, but give me a rebuttal if you can.
Fedi, tracking accounts? What do you mean by “tracking”?
Semi-permanent, yeah, I’ll give you that one. That said, if you delete something, generally it’s actually deleted. Any servers which turn out to be ignoring delete requests tend to get cut off from everyone else pretty quickly. I guess there’s always the possibility your “hey this post was deleted” notification might not bubble through to a given server, but it should work.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve seen several accounts here on Lemmy that go to an error page when you click on the name on their post. I always report them to the admins and never see them again. Never heard back from anyone what’s going on. I’ve developed a habit of checking the profiles of posts that just seem off.
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.
same, theres even more bots there now, because they banned or shadownbanned so many people.
I’ve seen some questionable activity and accounts talking exclusively about Iran. That was on Reddit though. Not here.
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, because well, just like bots, they are working off a contrived script about who is good and who is evil.
I’ve seen some pretty broad and good takes about the current conflict, but they are far and few and most of the replies are harassing them for not picking a side.
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.
most of the replies are harassing them for not picking a side.
This is Lemmy; let’s not pretend there’s an actual choice of which side to pick to avoid harassment or even mod intervention.
