While browsing the fediverse I come across more and more accounts that seem … a bit off, a little uncanny. The stuff they post seems random, their comments slightly weird. What’s going on, is the fediverse being overrun by bots? Or am I as a fanatic anti-AI person just losing my mind and seeing the enemy everywhere?
I hate the fact that I now question every interaction that seems a bit off - it seems such a stupid waste of my time and I’m afraid I might just end up blocking real people who happen to express themselves in a strange way - as a neurodivergent person I know how bad I would feel about being ostracized as ‘too strange to be real’. How would you handle this?
Fediverse mods and admins don’t want to cancel bots because lemmy’s engagement is so shit they want every possible source of content active
It’s a deliberate choice of quantity over quality and no amount of reporting or complaining will change that
Reddit took almost a decade to become a bot hotspot, it took lemmy less than 18 months
cool story bro