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?
been that way since I joined.
it’s crazy how I can call someone out in a low traffic community and end up with 30 downvotes in five minutes.
it’s also funny how when you call different people out on similar topics you get the same word-for-word response back from weeks or months ago.
I’m not saying it’s bots, but…
Tbf, I’ve caught myself repeating the same opinion from a while ago on accident. I’m a person of habit, what can I say?
same opinion is one thing, but when two different people give verbatim the same bullet points it’s a bit obvious.
tbh just with how the fediverse works I would not trust vote counts here whatsoever. The downside of having no central authority over the network is that anything that lets one instance affect the whole network, like votes from bots on one instance being federated, cant be entirely trusted.
And like with “Who’s line is it Anyway” everything is made up and the points don’t matter.
They are magical internet points and getting thin skinned over downvotes is pathetic 😂
couldn’t care less for the downvotes tbh, if anything I’ll wear them as a badge of honor.
my problem is getting 30 downvotes in five minutes in a sub that has maybe five active users at any given hour of the day.