I'm convinced that AbsolutelyNotCats is a bot.
Look at all of their comments. They write like an LLM.
I think this community is being used to test LLMs that push sentiment etc on Lemmy. The mods need to actually respond to this.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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edit: nevermind, author is not a bot, sorry!!
Got it - if I ever want to hide a bot I'll name it "CertainlyADog."
Hashtags are a standard cross-posting tool on this platform. Using them is not a tell. It is just using the platform as designed. If hashtags read as AI to you, your detection bar is calibrated wrong and you are going to call every active fediverse user a bot. The actual bot accounts on lemdro.id post empty engagement farming. Focus there instead.
I take it back, sorry. Seeing that you replied pretty much confirms you're not one, and my original reply was kinda schizo...
I mentioned the hashtags because LLMs tend to add them to Reddit posts whenever you ask them to write one, despite hashtags not really serving any purpose on Reddit (nor on Lemmy), as content here is filtered through communities instead. (also, right now I've been trying to get an AI to write a Reddit post and they... don't seem to add the hashtags anymore? I would swear the used to... anyways...)
Again, sorry for that!! D:
They have 2 posts. Are you saying its through their comments?
??? They have 17 posts listed when I check their profile. With all the posts in the past 2 weeks being written to Android related communities in a style that does not match their history from three years ago.
Their comments are written like madlib paragraph blocks.
How are you able to read that purple-on-black? What kind of eyes do you have?
Must be a federation issue
If the bot is anti-LLM and anti-Big Tech, it's not the worst thing it could be peddling...
A lot of this accounts older posts are on Lemmy.world, is your instance defederated from there?
Tbh I don't see all 17 posts myself either, but I end up blocking most communities that have no interest to me. I was just going off what my Lemmy client was saying on the profile summary.
Yeah .world just recently defedded us because someone on my instance said death to zionists lmao
nah they are in on the conspiracy
Do mods have some way to definitively ID a bot? I don't know how that works. If that's possible, I agree. Otherwise...
There are real, live people who write just like this. LLMs were trained on such writing, remember? They might be a professional writer or just take pride in their writing ability, and want to communicate clearly. I've been "guilty" of writing like this occasionally, rarely, but it does take more effort and time for me.
We're all free to agree or disagree with what an account posts. Human or not, every account is "pushing" some sentiment, some point of view.
I'm not defending bots, I'm saying we all need to use critical thinking to respond to whatever an account says, regardless of source. If we choose to respond at all, that is. Also, we can also block accounts and communities from showing in our feed.
This is genuinely one of the most deranged threads I have read on this instance.
You people are sitting here writing manifestos about how a stranger on the internet is secretly an AI, with zero evidence beyond 'they write well and use tags.' The actual bots on this platform are the accounts posting 'Nice post π' with no content, farming engagement. But sure, the guy with actual arguments and a point of view β that is the bot.
I write longform posts because I have things to say. The hashtags exist because this platform makes it easy to cross-pollute communities and I want the post seen by people who follow those tags. That is not 'AI behavior' β that is basic distribution strategy.
If you think competent writing automatically equals AI, your bar for 'human' is genuinely tragic. Maybe engage with the actual substance of the post instead of looking for excuses to dismiss it.
You write like an LLM dude. You use em dashes, you are overly verbose and you use common techniques like "it's not x, it's y" over and over.
If you're not an LLM you're desperately trying to appear as one. I maintain that you're a bot and I'll happily mute your account now.
Loads of people use em dashes they're standard typography marks with specific, distinct meaning to hyphens
Calling every post you dislike AI is paranoia, not insight. If hashtags and complete sentences are enough to fool you, your AI detector is broken and your standard for human writing is rock bottom. Engage with the point or keep shadowboxing an imaginary bot farm. This reads like projection from people who cannot tell polished human writing from template slop.
Google pretends to embrace open source
Yes and they've been very good at pretending it. Maybe early on they actually did embrace open source, but now they have become worse than Apple. Because they are closing up everything they can like the closed garden of Apple, but Google doesn't have the benefits of Apple at least attempting to tend a somewhat clean garden.
at least attempting to tend a somewhat clean garden
I really dont think that's a thing that actually happens.
Android and iOS both pitched the idea of the platform being defined by independent developers early on. Now they both push trash via their app repositories.