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.
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.
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.
The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots
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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.
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.
not as bad reddit
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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