Luckily it is typically too small to be much of a bot target. I don’t subscribe to world news subs though, dark places.

It’s usually only the news subs. But if you make claims that counter Kremlin propaganda you can sometimes summon them.

Like if I just say Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, it won’t (why? Beats me). But if I say they are killing ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens as well as Ukrainian men, women, and children, then we have a good chance.

I got others if it doesn’t work.

Edit: (WITNESS ME! Lol) Edit 2: Now I’m impressed. I knew I could do it, I didn’t expect it to work quite so well. I’ll check back in a few hours.

“People disagreeing with me are bots”

Why you people always gotta take everything as black and white. I use “bot” interchangeably with “shill.”

Edit: I see no one found the humor with switching the actual thing that is black and white in his statement (“Everyone I disagree with”) with the “bot” and “shill” thing.

“shill” implies payment, Lemmy is just way too under the radar for that kind of engagement

And by the time you have shills the network will be drowned in LLMs already. The latter hasn’t happened, it’s pure paranoia to think the former is anything to be concerned with.

If they’re getting paid to do it, they’re just meatbots.

That old cartoon show “Metabots” but they’re people in a computer cave lol

…Do you unironically believe people are getting paid to be on lemmy?

also into linux

Isn’t that something else? No matter where you are on the planet, if you know technology, you despise Windows.

Always has been.

Well, since 1978 or so.

Almost no one was into Linux back then though

The first version was released in 1991.

Not so sure, Putin was spotted voting on a unactivated windows computer (so several of my colleagues told me yesterday, haven’t verified that claim).

dont i remember there were no cables running to the monitor

Was it cake?

It was a lie, that much for sure.

Do Linux Russians also wear fancy socks?

Only secretly!

the 3rd kind is people too toxic for reddit and got banned

I think you meant to say 40 year old queer shitposters

i guess im the 4th kind

They’ve got an entire instance!

And that’s just the “nice” one that people still federate with.