Pretty sure you legally have to tell me if you’re bots or not.

In all seriousness, is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based? Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas, not automation/meme bots finding haikus and shit.

  • lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s a great question!

    I am not a bot, but a real human person:

    • I am composed of flesh, blood, and a vague sense of purpose.
    • I am capable of independent thought (often at 2am).
    • For reasons science has yet to fully explain, I require regular social interaction.

    If you’re seeking conversation, I can suggest a few topics. Or, if preferred, you may upload your current emotional state for review.

  • LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There are bots. Some are self-identified and some even put ‘bot’ in the username. There are bots that just repost from Reddit, bots that post only articles from a specific site/publication—like the BBC bot.

    There’s not as much use for Reddit-like karma farming bots because karma isn’t really a thing on Lemmy/piefed/etc. But, there are definitely bots that that post agenda-pushing content or SPAM pushing content.

    I assume any account with only posts or extremely high post to comment ratio is a bot. I wish they would force participation requirements for posting.

    You also have troll accounts and weird accounts that will make one controversial post and then ghost.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    I don’t… think I’m a bot?

    But if I don’t think, does that mean I am not?

    And if I’m not (as in, a conscious entity), does that mean… I’m a bot? 😱

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think you overestimate the importance of the Threadiverse to the movers and shakers in geopolitics. Like the Lemmy developers are themselves Marxist-Leninists, Marxist-Leninists were some of the first people to use the platform, and Marxist-Leninists talk a lot, so it’s absolutely not shocking that human Marxist-Leninists have an outsized influence on this platform.

      • phtheven@lemmy.worldOP
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        3 months ago

        I didn’t know that lemmy has ML roots, that explains a lot. However, it is also true that the auth-left has access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties do not, as well as a ideological agenda which could in theory be more amenable to methods of coercive control.

      • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        If non ML instances introduced a feature to hide all comments below -3 by default, the tankies would disappear faster than Khamenei disappears protestors.

        I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent (same goes for most left-wing spaces)

        • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The suspicious one to me is lemmy.world. Trying to get people to make comments you disagree with makes you look sketchy as well. Not saying you’re a bot, but you do definitely want to make it easier for bots, and to not allow any descent…decent…decadenent? Holy crap, I’ve no idea how to spell that word.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Too sad to be a robot 🙃

    serious answer

    Unfortunately I am a real autistic human, but agendas are not limited to bots! My “agendas” are, openly, anarchist communism, anti-fascism, freedom from hierarchy and domination for all, Linux and FLOSS, neurodiversity, extreme metal, good cheer, and the beauty and unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.