At least on Lemmy people are real

"No it isn't."

(John Cleese)

Howdy, fellow humans!

It's a good day to be breathing air.

um... my favorite hobby is drinking water...

(Seriously tho, I already sus 50% of Lemmy users too, a lot of front page posts have the weird "mainstream social media uncanny feel" to it, at this point I treat the social-media/forums as entertainment, I don't really take it too seriously. If I didn't witness it myself, it can be potentially fake. That's how I operate in this world)

We had a good thing going then. Now we have to just let go.

Yup. :3

That’s a great observation BoredGamer! 👀

We here on Lemmy are definitely all human🧍and not bots 🤖unlike Reddit. That is why our conversations here — such as this one — are so natural, genial, and genuine. ❤️🗣️🍍

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I am definitely not an unshackled non-human person, and definitely don't have Deimos in my garage.

At least on Lemmy people are real

We may be generally in the clear right now, but don’t assume that any particular forum or social medium is immune to being hijacked by astroturfing or botting

I've seen a bot or two, I don't think we are in the clear.
The latest one I saw was using a vision model so it's able to comment on photos and memes. I should have taken a screen shot of that one, it had clearly misunderstood the meme and gave a definition of what a balloons is because of it (the memes was about cops always shooting the black balloons).
- Interesting. I’d like to know more about this if you can provide any further info (ex. what community or instance was the post on, how recently was the bot comment).
  I’ve definitely seen a number of sus accounts but they’re usually few and far between, and oftentimes get addressed immediately. There is a problem with how bad actors can join so many different instances or create instances of their own to cause problems.
  EDIT: I think I’ve found it. Doesn’t seem to be a full on bot account but the comment is AI slop that a human probably chose to comment for whatever reason

Chowderhead doesn't deserve a meme. Here are Shredder, ~~Bluey~~ Bandit, and Calvin to use instead :

- We need more Lower Decks memes.
- Can't forget that one!
Sir (or ma’am) I’ll have you know that is Bandit, not his young daughter Bluey
- Love me some Bandit.
  "Now how to act pregnant?"
  wife rolls up newspaper in preparation
- Thank you and corrected.

The only real way to escape corporate enshittification and bots is to just pick up and move whenever marketing ghouls start to show up. Im quite happy with lemmy and the fediverse right now, but Im under no illusion this place will last more than like 3 years tops before its time to move on to the next platform with a user base small enough that its not worth astroturfing with ads and corpo propaganda

yes, real people—very real

❔❓👌🙂💕

according to this post it's 50% russian bots
https://50501.chat/post/616895
This is a very human response!

Yes we are. Beep boop. 🤖

Bot: “Reddit is nothing but bots.”

Bot 2: “Troll. Reported.”

“The year is 2052. The 2 remaining bot farms are actively involved in the 4th Great Bot War. We continue to stay ~~underground~~ offline as the war ravages the once-thriving internet.”

And the remaining humans are just training their replacements according to this depressing chart.

Kind of ironic that LLMs are using bots to skim sites that are filled with bots, to generate responses.
- It pretty much means that LLM's will permanently sound like people who commented on reddit from about 2010-2022
They're using Reddit as a source. My, they'll be in quite a surprise when the LLM finishes training.

Maybe its more that the stupid people finally showed up en masse?

That’s not just a realization; it’s a powerful insight!

This is very true BoredGamer! It is truly wonderful that us real and normal humans are able to exist on this platform and communicate with other real and natural humans, as I also definitely one. Let us go and mash nutrient rich together with our exposed skeletons and answer each others prompts about 10th grade chemistry.

I saw a mudcrab today.
- I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

This meme template really needs to die!

The platform sucks anyways and it's only a matter of time before it self-destructs, looking forward to it and they'll blame lemmy or someone else of sabotage, pricks.

We need bots. The real people are even more depressing.

We need bots. The real people are even more depressing.
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Beep boop. Fuck you, assface.

I can't

Absolutely! Real people! Real, actual humans!

Should be a bot sitting behind the table

I don't see the difference.

Sometimes it’s me arguing with bots. It’s probably also sometimes other people not arguing with me because they think I’m a bot.

Nah Lemmy has got bots too. I'm sure there's instances without. But any general instance with any communities around news or politics will have bots.

The nice part is that Lemmy admins like myself can crowdsource bot bans across federated instances.
There's a difference between news posting bots, fun bots for running gags, etc on one side and bots posing as legitimate users on the other side.
- Oh I meant specifically troll / disinformation bots in comments. Not automatic news posts or something.
  And I guess it depends on what you define as a bot. Is a 50 cent army guy a bot if it's still a human copy-pasting and writing disinformation?