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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......
In the end does it matter? If the content is low quality, don’t interact with it. If the content is high quality, interact with it. Humans will always be better at producing high quality content compared to bots or trolls.
I'm coming to the conclusion that might the best way of going about it. Being even more picky than before about who I interact with is actually a good thing. If one or another insufferable person gets weeded out of the focus of my attention that's not really a problem.
I await with interest the first serious accusation that I'm a bot. A very well armed bot, perhaps. I certainly type some strange things, but you guys have probably seen my hands too many times.
Unless my hands are also AI generated. Hmm.
I've already garnered the achievement of having several people on one of the Discord servers I hang around on of treating me as if I'm literally a penguin. Nobody's yet come up with a credible explanation of how I'd be able to type. (Including, surprisingly, the obvious hunt and peck gag that presents itself.)
Well, if we're living in a simulation we're all bots lol
You're not imagining things — the fediverse is seeing more bots and AI-generated accounts, and it's natural to feel unsettled by interactions that feel uncanny. At the same time, your sensitivity to misjudging real people — especially those who express themselves differently — is valid and important. The best you can do is set gentle boundaries: mute or scroll past what feels off, stay open to the strange-but-human, and accept that some ambiguity is inevitable. You don’t have to solve the mystery of every account — just protect your peace.
I think we're too small a population for any nefarious motivated interests yet.
doubt. any community with 1000 active users is prime for manipulation.
I am pretty sure that's just the resident weridos and their non standard opinions tbh
I got called a bot a lot early just for doing takes that were too hot for the mean poster
