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.

  • 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.

    • 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.

      • 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.