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?

  • Dr. WeskerEnglish
    1594·
    6 months ago

    Welcome to the Fediverse, we have an abundance of autism.

    • schmorp@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      202·
      6 months ago

      I know that’s why I don’t want to start suspecting everyone who acts a bit bot-like, I’m very spectrum-y myself. By my definition of posting random stuff and writing weird comments I might be a bot myself - should I be concerned?

      • Dr. WeskerEnglish
        41·
        6 months ago

        Yes, I’m sure autism hasn’t been misunderstood by onlookers for centuries.

          • Dr. WeskerEnglish
            91·
            6 months ago

            Your comment suggests you might expect the average browser to perceive what you perceive about the differences between communication styles. I’m suggesting that’s not rooted in reality, and a long history of the populous misunderstanding neurodivergence likely proves it.

            • Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldbanned_from_community_badge
              113·
              6 months ago

              ten dollar words doesn’t make your drivel true, doc

              I mean there really isn’t even any rationale to it, like at all.

              • Dr. WeskerEnglish
                132·
                6 months ago

                You’re rather insufferable. “Enjoy your block.”