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.

  • Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 hour ago

    That’s an excellent question! It might be hard to convince you that i am in fact not a bot – why would there be bots on Lemmy?

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I’m sure there must be. There are enough tech geeks kicking about that at least one of them would give their weird self-hosted LLM an account. Hopefully nothing too malicious or widespread, but it’s well within the realm of possibility.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Here on Lemmy I assume folks to be human unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.

    It’s worth remembering Lemmy is so small that pushing bots just makes little practical sense. You’ll have better luck sharing propaganda on any of the subreddits with a population higher than this entire place.

  • False@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Lemmy’s architecture seems incredibly vulnerable to bots, but I think it’s still so small that no one really cares to.

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I definitely do notice bots from time to time, but I’d agree with you that it’s still small and bots are not that common, YET.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Its a dark time when we can’t do the ‘everyone on platform is a bot except you’ joke because that’s exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    i think we all are yes, because without any attachment to our true identity or jeopardy of same and the layer of anonymity that most online forums give us, we all manifest a false projected persona

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I believe in Live Internet Theory. The vast majority of people I interact with are real humans, bots are often easily identifiable, and even then there’s usually a person behind the bot.

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I’m- I’m not a bot? I would know if I was a bot! Right? Oh gods why don’t I have hands where are my hands where are my hands they took my hands where are my hands