All this. All the replies, all the posts. Just bots arguing with one another, triggering you ‘juuust enough’ to engage and reinforce your bias with a dopamine shot, so you continue to read and get enraged some more. At this point you can’t even tell which is a person and which is not any more. All for the amusement of a few powerful elites in control of the algorithm.
Are we really so placated, hopeless and in need for edification that we continue to participate, with no real translation to real world personal development and action?
I stopped using Reddit for this reason. I show my identity on Lemmy so people can find out I’m an actual person that exists, even on web archive going back pre-genAI/LLMs. If you wanna check, feel free to call me lol
This is the one place where it’s not all bots.
Except for me, I eat wires for breakfast, and batteries for lunch. And then for dinner I’ll make spaghetti because sometimes bots just love a good plate of pasta.
If you really feel this way, I would strongly recommend limiting your time spent on the internet. Your time should be valuable to you. If you’re not happy with what you spend your time on, then do something else.
I personally couldn’t care less if the people I respond to are real. I only reply if I feel like I have something useful to contribute and it will still be useful to others even if I’m replying to a bot. If something makes me mad or hopeless or whatever, I just move on.
I’m a bot…
But if I were a man
I’d go to Japan
Maybe swim in the Seine
And learn to speak French
I’d have the whole world in the palm of my hand
And finally do, what I could, 'cause I can
If I were a man!
Where there’a a profit incentive, yes it’s likely being gamed by bots.
For quieter spaces with not too much engagement, you’re generally talking to people is my feeling there
did you shower think yourself into the dead internet?
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
Hi, I’m Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick ;)
