Just delete your account and start a new one. There is literally nothing that you gain from using an old account apart from increased risk.

Your hungry pigs and professor acid soup can wait till I'm done. I only get one life to eat a human.

I've seen some links posted to sites that somehow manage to show comment history even for accounts with it hidden as well. Apparently the feature is pretty half baked.

I have noticed more personality posts stuff like relationship dramas but the phrasing in them is odd.

Also a few more agitators…they are quick to be in and quite snarky. Maybe it was always there and I didn’t notice it.

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.

Would prions survive the acid?

One can get banned for that, as well as the fact that you're once again uploading info that might possibly be used against you in future. Even the Fediverse tracks its accounts as I understand it and makes one's history semi-permanent.

The only true alternative I know is to take part in an accountless system or one which is heavily anonymized, like the 'Chan' stuff or whatever. For me it's just far easier to tread lightly, and avoid certain topics.

EDIT: Downvote away, but give me a rebuttal if you can.

There is a bot that posts nothing but links to reddit threads. I could block it or bots in general but then I won't be able to downvote the posts it makes. It moderates the communities it posts to so reporting it would do fuck all.

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

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.

Everyone on the Internet is a bot except you.

dent corn that'll put a dent in you

I dunno, what we've read they've done it before. Jerky and whatnot.

I'm not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don't need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.

The only true alternative is to just have more alts, one for specific interests where each each individual one is not enough to ban you. Platforms that clearly have thrived off of them should facilitate people using them instead of using it as an excuse to ban people when they want to.

It also doesn't help when those platforms are deliberately trying to harvest as much personal data they can off of their users and often have engagement bait posts to get their users to get them to identify increasingly personal data about themselves that is otherwise nothing anyone would care about.

I'm not sure how they do it exactly, but Reddit is evidently really good at detecting alts. Not necessarily by IP# or common information across accounts, but by... well I don't know, some deep algorithms or something?

Reddit still has use to me, and there are one or two communities in which I have roots and a relationship with the mods, etc. I'd really rather not mess around with that or risk getting in to an 'account war' with Reddit over alts. At least at this time...

Not this bot again.

No. I really hadn't thought my comment through.

As someone who has gotten banned by the admins for stupid reasons that should have been overturned but weren't.......... Having a new account is a pain in the ass for a couple of months and/or until you build up karma.

It's stupidly painful.

They also use browser fingerprinting, session information, and geolocation, powered by generative AI. IP can easily be cycled in most ISPs, so they'd end up hurting themselves if they just used that.

Shoot... some of that stuff I should be able to block via my U-matrix extension. Would just need to play around with the javascripts, I guess.

Safest approach to stay sane.

I've seen several accounts here on Lemmy that go to an error page when you click on the name on their post. I always report them to the admins and never see them again. Never heard back from anyone what's going on. I've developed a habit of checking the profiles of posts that just seem off.

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

not as bad reddit

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

Fedi, tracking accounts? What do you mean by "tracking"?

Semi-permanent, yeah, I'll give you that one. That said, if you delete something, generally it's actually deleted. Any servers which turn out to be ignoring delete requests tend to get cut off from everyone else pretty quickly. I guess there's always the possibility your "hey this post was deleted" notification might not bubble through to a given server, but it should work.

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.

oh yea the best of reddit one.

palintir has been botting on reddit heavily recently.

i block the main politics.worlds.

Everyone has most traits of most mental health issues to some extent. Its not a useless classification though. Classic example is everyone pees but if youre doing it 40 times a day its probably time for the doctors.

Yes, I think you explained it well. I'd not stated it very precisely, and I do feel like this is a low-risk platform at the moment.

Still, there's always the potential risk that whatever is posted & commented here can be tracked and recorded in to a permanent record of sorts. And that AI / other tools could possibly be used to collect such info and profile people. Things are changing fast, so I deem it best to be cautious, with an eye on the future.

There are a lot of people out there, so many things can be true at once.

I think it's inevitable that some people use labels as excuses just because awareness of those conditions is so much higher. I also think it's inevitable that there are a lot of people who struggled all their life with things that are difficult to diagnose or weren't on the minds of parents and teachers 30 years ago.

And there's probably no way to ever say definitively, with evidence, either way on this -- but it would blow my fucking mind to find out that Lemmy didn't have a neurospicy percentage of participants significantly higher than the general population.

And even if that were known to be untrue, I think Lemmy also attracts people who are more aware, open, and accepting of that stuff in themselves and others.

It was fake. It wasn't even Republican.

The big and medium communities are lost. Small niche communities still have some good followings and timely content.

Lol nah, I just crosspost .ml (see below) and it's all done by human hands, I'm just hooked into the RSS feed to deliver notifications to my phone + a good workflow

Wow. It's so fucking bad over there.

But, what if I am a bot and don't know it?

Nothing would change.

I've blocked that guy so many times for posting that dumbass Buckminster Burkwood AI slop over and over but they have an account on every single fucking instance apparently.

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.