I recently got Permabanned from Reddit because I reshared the Alex Pretti video back when that was happening. They also banned every other account for every person in my household because of their fingerprinting service going overboard.

Fuck Reddit.

You're not missing anything. Reddit is the embodiment of Empty Internet Theory. If you're a human posting on that site, you're a statistical anomaly. And not for long, because everyone's getting booted.

Its gotten really bad now that hidden profiles are a thing.

I’ve seen some questionable activity and accounts talking exclusively about Iran. That was on Reddit though. Not here.

same, theres even more bots there now, because they banned or shadownbanned so many people.

Yeah I cant tell. Lots of accounts have history that are talking...so I dont think they are bots.

You can report if you want. Different instances will take different approaches.

Safest approach to stay sane.

The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots

Some of the bots, on the other hand, are very easily distinguishable from humans. The one who's profile I checked out was posting well-polished exactly bot-like political memes for the past few months at a rate that would be a full-time job for an unassisted human.

most of the replies are harassing them for not picking a side.

This is Lemmy; let’s not pretend there’s an actual choice of which side to pick to avoid harassment or even mod intervention.

I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the "bots" or "shills" or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I've yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they're not to influence politics. The only actual bots I've seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.

I'm skeptical. I just think there is a higher percentage of people who use that label to justify their persecution complexes, which justify their anger/rage that they direct towards others. I bet you the vast majority of people who rail about 'normies' are themselves, are very much normies themselves.

even IRL I have seen a huge uptick the past few years of people, in casual conversation, self-diagnosing themselves with conditions to excuse their poor behaviors, or sometimes even their simple mistakes. I don't understand any of it, personally. As far as I can tell mental health terminology has become basically slang at this point, whereas 10-20 years ago it was nonexistent in pop culture and casual speech.

AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.

oh yea the best of reddit one.

you could make a bot that downvotes their posts and still block them.

only way to stop a bad bot with a bot is a good bot with a bot.

palintir has been botting on reddit heavily recently.

i block the main politics.worlds.

its easier to block them here then on reddit, where ever 1 bot is replaced by hundreds. its impossible, and i also heard that if you block over 1000+ they dont actually mute thier comments anymore.

Hahaha, yes fellow human, so true.