The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
I was wondering why we suddenly had so many astroturfers, shills and bots creeping in and fucking up all the conversations. It used to just be dumb but earnest tankies, now we got all kinds up in this bitch.
I don’t know which ones are bots. I assume nothing is a bot. I don’t know about any bots. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one. Are you a bot? How do I know?
You’re going about it wrong, assume everyone is a bot, because it’s very, very hard to tell now. You cannot tell if I’m a bot.
The best tell is honestly if someone makes a stupid argument, because there are more bots than people making stupid arguments against objective reality and basic human empathy and community and progressive politics, or making radical and dumb far-left calls for revolution, violence or demanding recognition for some obscure and controversial marginalized group to the exclusion of everyone and everything else.
If you understand what they’re trying to do with bot armies and shills working to move culture, you can recognize it a lot easier.
There are also no small number of people who have read these stupid arguments and have unknowingly sided with a bot because it sounds “inclusive” or like proper progressive stances, but haven’t used critical thought. I count them as bots also.
Huh well I wonder why making your space inhospitable for leftists would attract astroturfers and shills?
Thank you, I wish to be further educated by .ml users on lefty takes such as how Iran mass shooting their citizens protesting in the face is actually good, or how Russia has a god-given right to invade their neighbors, I’ve not heard that enough!
Where should I subscribe to the “anyone anti-West is ontologically GOOD” newsletter?
Is anyone actually saying those things or are you exaggerating the positions of leftists who wouldn’t want Western imperialist powers to be able to topple foreign governments?
Corpo trash can’t stand wrongthink