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.
Man…
In a weird way, yeah, but only because the process of critical thinking is now being described as “vibes”…
Like, even when people can tell at a glance, it’s still critical thinking, it’s just been done so much that your brain autopilots it for you.
That costs a non zero amount of money, and there isn’t a big enough audience here to justify it.
What I have seen, is people who will copy/paste a chatbot, but because they’re having to use actual credits, if you keep them going a couple comments the actual human will reply.
But those are very few, and doing personal agendas. Not a shadowy organization spinning a narrative. The ones doing it here, have just been banned from every where else for doing it already
In that way it sometimes feels like lemmy is a temporary haven. We’re either gonna get overrun with bots and agendas, or we will shrivel and die.
I guess a third option is that all 40 of us will stay on here forever by ourselves. I’m down if you are. Lock it down, no one joins, no one leaves, starting now.
The point the fediverse is at right now would be refered to as the “golden age” if the fediverse ever takes off.
That doesn’t mean it will take off, and that doesn’t mean it would be better or worse if it takes off later.
Enjoy it for what it is, but if you want to recruit people to it…
Your time would be best doing that, and this is the worst place to do it.