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?
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.
This is ridiculous. You really can’t assume anyone “making radical and dumb far-left calls for revolution” is a bot. By this rule every communist is a bot. You’re dismissing very reasonable responses to the state of the world, in which multiple genocides are taking place and it’s been exposed that various heads of states and billionaires are pedophiles and have been conspiring together for years. If anything, I’m sure a lot of reasonable people could just as easily say that anyone who wants to just vote away the problems is a bot. Why is that position inherently better than revolution?
Also, what are the “obscure and controversial marginalized groups”? Trans people? The disabled?
Ah, another victim of the chaos, flailing and directing energy at an entire narrative spun by people deliberately having dedicated time and energy to making you specifically feel outraged at people who are your ally, filling all the blanks with your worst case fantasies and the lovely opportunity to police your own side.
Get off the internet. https://www.progressivevictory.win/ has people you can support and actually get off your ass and help for local representation and leadership. Nobody is coming. Nobody is saving us. There will be no revolution. Rebuild community and drop the rage.
If the unpopular voices of a random person on the internet are too worrisome and problematic for you to focus on what matters, you’re no good to any of us. I won’t see a reply, I don’t have the energy to deal with .ml’ers right now.
Why do you Reddit losers always right like this learned to talk solely from watching anime and Joss Whedon films?
Not sure if you understand what my politics are if you say that sentence then link me that org. Blackwater mercs who aren’t repentant at all about all the murder they’ve committed in Iraq are not my allies. The people they killed were my allies, and their living families are the people I care about 100000x more than people like Graham Platner.
Ok, then I guess we’ll all just die and boil the planet then. Cool worldview you have there.
Oh, by the way, I’m Puerto Rican and your country doesn’t let me have a say in the federal government nor even our own government’s budget. So your vote-shaming means nothing to me.
if I assumed everyone was a bot, I wouldn’t be here talking. it would be a waste of my goddamn time. it would be boring
if I assume that everyone with stupid political views was a bot, then I’d just be an idiot
I’m glad I can use reasoning and deduction to actually figure things out or I would be equally stuck in a black-and-white false dichotomy.
For example, I assumed you’re a bot immediately, then I made a small effort and checked for clues, and found the first mod action performed against you on lemmy was a comment removed for asking about microwaving your balls, which tells me you’re likely a human. But I also know in relatively short time even those clues will be meaningless as tactics get more and more sophisticated. It’s just like always being on guard when you go outside. You can be on guard for danger without always being anxious or paranoid.
See? it’s not so hard.