I swear that cm0002 guy or whatever is a bot, because they go around cross-posting a lot of stuff here and there.
I’ve blocked that guy so many times for posting that dumbass Buckminster Burkwood AI slop over and over but they have an account on every single fucking instance apparently.
Lol nah, I just crosspost .ml (see below) and it’s all done by human hands, I’m just hooked into the RSS feed to deliver notifications to my phone + a good workflow
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
not as bad reddit
Not this bot again.
I’m not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don’t need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.
Everyone on the Internet is a bot except you.
Safest approach to stay sane.
But, what if I am a bot and don’t know it?
Nothing would change.
There is a bot that posts nothing but links to reddit threads. I could block it or bots in general but then I won’t be able to downvote the posts it makes. It moderates the communities it posts to so reporting it would do fuck all.
oh yea the best of reddit one.
AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.
I have noticed more personality posts stuff like relationship dramas but the phrasing in them is odd.
Also a few more agitators…they are quick to be in and quite snarky. Maybe it was always there and I didn’t notice it.
Just my guess - meant to bait people into making various threats to see how well Palantir’s social media monitoring works at the fringes.
Be careful out there, y’all.
palintir has been botting on reddit heavily recently.
A bunch of the ABWD sleepers reactivated recently. I don’ think they are bots, but after a year of being very quiet, they all came out of their termite holes after being quiet for about a year.
lol. bots. as if us humans on the internet would not be real carbon based life forms from this planet. so funny.
Hahaha, yes fellow human, so true.
Some people block political threads, so all that’s left are those that don’t block them… which tends to be people who strongly believe in their opinions or want to use it as a soapbox to rant… so there’s rarely any just “chill” opinions or nuanced takes. Almost everyone on a political thread is gonna be angry at something… against one side, cheering for the destruction of one side… or both sides…
I saw some obvious bots like a week ago, there are some among us for sure.
Maybe there’s more than usual, because of the Iran related stuff.
No there is just a major world event, a war in Iran, and people want to dump their angry hot takes about it incessantly. So you are going to have a big influx of people grandstanding about it being good or evil.
The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots, because well, just like bots, they are working off a contrived script about who is good and who is evil.
I’ve seen some pretty broad and good takes about the current conflict, but they are far and few and most of the replies are harassing them for not picking a side.
Some of the bots, on the other hand, are very easily distinguishable from humans. The one who’s profile I checked out was posting well-polished exactly bot-like political memes for the past few months at a rate that would be a full-time job for an unassisted human.
The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots
Maybe there’s just a higer percentage of neurospicy people on the fediverse.
I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the “bots” or “shills” or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I’ve yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they’re not to influence politics. The only actual bots I’ve seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.
I’m skeptical. I just think there is a higher percentage of people who use that label to justify their persecution complexes, which justify their anger/rage that they direct towards others. I bet you the vast majority of people who rail about ‘normies’ are themselves, are very much normies themselves.
even IRL I have seen a huge uptick the past few years of people, in casual conversation, self-diagnosing themselves with conditions to excuse their poor behaviors, or sometimes even their simple mistakes. I don’t understand any of it, personally. As far as I can tell mental health terminology has become basically slang at this point, whereas 10-20 years ago it was nonexistent in pop culture and casual speech.
There are a lot of people out there, so many things can be true at once.
I think it’s inevitable that some people use labels as excuses just because awareness of those conditions is so much higher. I also think it’s inevitable that there are a lot of people who struggled all their life with things that are difficult to diagnose or weren’t on the minds of parents and teachers 30 years ago.
And there’s probably no way to ever say definitively, with evidence, either way on this – but it would blow my fucking mind to find out that Lemmy didn’t have a neurospicy percentage of participants significantly higher than the general population.
And even if that were known to be untrue, I think Lemmy also attracts people who are more aware, open, and accepting of that stuff in themselves and others.
Well, how am I supposed to keep up with “politically correct” terminology if “ploticially correct” terminology keeps changing every year?
I learned this term from a diagnosed autist last year (after refereling to her as “autist”). She told me she’s very active in that community and that this was a preffered term. Now you tell me it’s basically a dog whistle?
I’ll tell you what, I’m just gonna call everyone a dumbass and be done with it! Red Forman that shit.
Uh, “dumbass” has been used for decades to put people down who have intellectual deficiencies. This is 2026; you can’t call people dumbasses.
Cartman is still a fatass in 2026.
Or does he have a ‘lipid mass regulation deficiency’?
You aren’t supposed to keep up with that shit. It’s stupid.
Assuming it isn’t your professional job in some capacity.
My take is if people get offended at you not calling them some preferred nomenclature… they are assholes. Well-adjusted people typically don’t start a shitfit about such things. Nor is a single person’s testimony anything to make a broader assumption upon.
I very much would like to agree with that,but in my experience the effort/reward is worth it. As in, it’s only a little effort and it is very much appreciated. Even if you do it wrong every conversation, but cincerely promosie to do better next time. That still is appreciated.
This is just a long way to say “in my day, no one was so called ‘autistic’”
There is a massive difference between officially being diagnosed as being autistic and self-identifying as it. A differences based in clinical science.
What is messed up is people can’t acknowledge this, or act like this difference is oppressive and problematic.’
According to self-diagnosis, I can easily convince myself I’m autistic or a million other mental conditions. But I am not. Because I’m not a professional clinician, and even if I was self-diagnosis is a violation of professional ethics.
You seem to think everyone has the option to become diagnosed but that’s not the case. I’ve tried to be diagnosed and literally doctors seem to avoid it. And I can actually afford doctors while many cannot.
I have mostly avoided self diagnosing myself as autistic but there are many signs of it. I shouldn’t be blamed if I did say I’m probably slightly autistic. I’m not sure why an internet rando would know more about my situation than I do.
literally everyone is slightly autistic. that is a useless classification.
it’s like saying have to eat food or you have to poop. so does litereally every other person who ever existed… it’s not a distinguishing aspect of any one person over another.
when you self-diagnose you are doing nothing more than taking a horoscope. i bet you are a ‘little bit of a Pisces’. too.
Everyone has most traits of most mental health issues to some extent. Its not a useless classification though. Classic example is everyone pees but if youre doing it 40 times a day its probably time for the doctors.
When I first responded, I thought you were only a little off from an opinion I might understand. I was wrong.
Also you contradicted the fuck out of yourself. You said if everyone is on the spectrum then no one is. So now you are nakedly foolish and ignorant.
It could be overused now where it wasn’t before. Or it could be where it was suppressed before. It may be somewhere in the middle. Which is better than being ignored and alienated, even if some use is more hype than realism.
I think we’re all on a spectrum in lots of different ways. Rainbows. Rainbows everywhere.
Saying we are all on the spectrum is the same as saying nobody is on it.
That’s why I’m skeptical. Saying you are autistic has no meaning anymore. Anyone could say it and believe it abotu themselves.
That’s VERY different than getting clinically diagnosed.
No he’s right. It s a spectrum and everyone is on it. That includes “perfectly average” is a dimension of that spectrum. Same goes for sexuality, it’s also a spectrum, so everyone’s at least a little bit gay.
I’ve not yet noticed any deviations from the norm
Yeah I cant tell. Lots of accounts have history that are talking…so I dont think they are bots.
You can report if you want. Different instances will take different approaches.
