While browsing the fediverse I come across more and more accounts that seem … a bit off, a little uncanny. The stuff they post seems random, their comments slightly weird. What’s going on, is the fediverse being overrun by bots? Or am I as a fanatic anti-AI person just losing my mind and seeing the enemy everywhere?

I hate the fact that I now question every interaction that seems a bit off - it seems such a stupid waste of my time and I’m afraid I might just end up blocking real people who happen to express themselves in a strange way - as a neurodivergent person I know how bad I would feel about being ostracized as ‘too strange to be real’. How would you handle this?

  • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
    28·
    14 hours ago

    Not the vibe I’ve gotten. I do get that vibe over on Reddit. I think the quirky conversations and novel responses make me lean away from bot. However I’m not an expert.

    • v01dworks@lemmy.world
      7·
      12 hours ago

      Yeah half the reason I left Reddit was that it felt either like a hive mind or like it was just full of bots, or both, and I left before LLMs took off. I can’t imagine it’s gotten any better since then

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        1·
        2 hours ago

        forced out by thier aggressive purges, reddit now filters and see everyone is a bot, new accounts and inactive ones are at risk.

      • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
        6·
        12 hours ago

        Right? The same chain of “jokes” as top level comments. Thousands of thousand of comments that were very off topic or incredibly shallow perspectives. Copy/pasted comments up and down the chains. Then there were the obvious advertising disguised as post/conversations. Ick. I still maintain my account for the local/state subreddit and metalcore subreddit and that is it.

        • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 hours ago

          This

          BTW have you tried Skub? It’s pretty amazing. I’d link it but it’s against sub rules. Hit me up with a DM if you’d like to know more

        • v01dworks@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Seriously! I could read a post title and then accurately guess what the top comment would be way too often and it was just slowly driving me insane to be on there

          I deleted my account after the API changes that killed the Apollo app and I basically only go on there now if I get a post as a relevant result in my search engine lol but I’m never going back as a regular user