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.
No, I am not a bot.
Trust me, it’s in the bot-stitution.
But seriously tho, I don’t really trust anything.
Its more like cool story bro and its tagged in my brain as some random internet stranger said this
I don’t even trust irl stories too much, unless like I really got to know them, so I definitely don’t just randok stories online 100%, especially the more political it gets.
It could be true, or it could be false, or maybe partially true but exaggerated, or anywhere inbetween.
And I have this habit of checking the profiles of users like a lot.
I mean if you use piefed you’ll notice it.
A lot of brand new accounts posting comics that shows up on the front page with 500 upvotes and they have 20 posts in the past 24 hours and 0 comments…
sus af fuck…
Like literally every day there’s a brand new account posting comics.
but unfortunately, no rules actually broken and the content is non-political so I just ignore it.
But sometimes they do have rage bait stuff.
I think this is what I’m subconsciously starting to do. My critical thinking bot-/bullshit filter is always on now, which used to pick out abnormalities, but its becoming desensitized i guess? Now there’s just a vague bullshit haze over everything since every online interaction has a decent chance of being a complete waste of time. Sometimes I feel like I’ll be driven off the internet entirely one day.