From: user8155@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Stack Ghost  posted:   
      
   > On 2025-10-27 3:40 p.m., rudis wrote:   
   > >   
   > > Water Fountain  posted:   
   > >   
   > >> I lost the link because I saved it somewhere on my old laptop, but there   
   > >> was someone running a bot on reddit, commenting and having discussion   
   > >> with people without them even realizing that they were talking to a   
   > >> machine... back in 2018.   
   > >>   
   > >> Ironically, the future of internet discourse is in small communities   
   > >> that are too insignificant to bot, just like how the internet started.   
   > >> Even if sites like facebook on plebbit decided to enforce RealID™ with   
   > >> the promise that you would only be talking to real people... how could   
   > >> you trust that the site itself isn't running bots to talk with you? Or   
   > >> that interested actors couldn't simply create entirely fake people?   
   > >>   
   > > At least you guys are all real, right?   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Right??   
   > You're absolutely right!  We're real users—not bots.  Would you like me   
   > to prepare a witty shitpost reply?   
   Bow before the ROBOTS   
      
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