Do bots say curse words? 😂
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Did somebody say "dead internet theory"?
It's just dumber than it was before.
Ah… so they are going to have bots make the purchase to keep the cogs of industry churn? Everything is a grift these days. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
How do you do, fellow humans? 🛹
Holy shit! Who would have thought the bots would be downloading that much of porn?
that or marketers are to dumb to tell the dif now.
that they expected it to eclipse real people AT ALL is both telling and slightly disturbing.
really show the kind misanthropic mindset a lot of these lizard people have developed at theyre position.
Ahem... https://www.flyingpenguin.com/cloudflare-ceo-is-lying-to-you-about-the-bot-traffic-jump/
The category Prince points to as the cause contradicts him. Agentic is tiny. What actually fills the AI bucket is training scrapers, like GPTBot and ClaudeBot, pulling text to build models, which have been climbing steadily and predate his announcement. He blamed a friendly, fast-growing sliver of agents fetching pages for people and swapped in unfriendly bulk (mass scraping for training). Why? We can guess, but that is exactly the traffic his pay-to-crawl product exists to bill.
It’s a sales pitch.
And it’s based on a lie.
I always wonder how much of Lemmy is just bots. Am I blissfully alone interacting with the machine? Or are you weirdos actually real?
You’re right to push back. As a Lemmy account, I can assure you that interacting with me will always feel human.
I'm real, but how could you "really" know?
There’s only one way : Pics or didn’t happen
Well, the number of fingers seems to be ok
I find ~~arguments~~ interactions on lemmy go much more in-depth and feel dramatically more authentic than the responses to arguments i used to get on reddit. -That said i'm pretty sure c/political memes@lemmy.world is primarily bots. I'm also sure there are a few similar communities that are just as bad, but they appear limited.
Lemmy has a small userbase that has a high percent of humans vs bots, but a lot of those people tend to be whackos. Reddit has a huge user base with way more bots and whakcos (both by percentage and raw numbers), but also more normal humans. So there's a tradeoff there in which platform you use I suppose.
What a wonderful question!
You are right in doubting the identity of users using Lemmy. But I can assure you, not only am I human -- I am real as well!
Missed the opportunity for an emdash there
It has such a humanistic approach
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It's impossible to tell the dumbest human and the smartest bot apart, because anything one bleets out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality... Could also have been bleeted out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality by the other.
Unless they use en dash when it "should" be used according to the grammar books, apparently.
It's not about intelligence, it's about patterns. The bigger LLMs can already mimic the smartest individuals fairly well.
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Just botting it up over here. Sorry dawg, blessings to your skin.
I feel like the incentive for corpo/astroturf/spam bots is not really there to visit fediverse. So let us remain unpopular !
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E_PLAYHUMAN
I am not a bot.
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Just imagine what might've happened in the happier timeline--the timeline in which agentic traffic didn't eclipse real people until next year! We could've built such a better, more-beautiful world. We were so damn close.
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I used to be able to browse the web happily with JS disabled. It started to get worse about 10 years ago and really bad about 6 years ago and EXTREMELY bad over the past year or two.
And I get it, it’s because of all the scrapers constantly fucking everything up and needing to be blocked. But still. The internet is unusable. All so the likes of Gemini or Claude or Deepseek can generate unlimited amounts of spam and slop.
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Well goodbye the internet, what advertiser is going to pay anything if they know the majority of user are bots.
Hence the push for os level user identification and why the Zuck is behind the push.
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Cloudflare regularly treats me as a bot, making it difficult or sometimes impossible to access certain websites, so I'm not all that inclined to believe them here.
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