I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.

  • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Are you by any chance referring to the user who posted stuff like this? (Not from NSQ but they did post there.)

    • Alice@beehaw.org
      3·
      3 hours ago

      That’s so mean! I wish people were nicer about stammers, and speech impediments in general. When I got my first service job, I had a handful of customers like that, and I got a glimpse of how much it affects their daily lives. People got impatient and walked away from customers and hung the phone up on them all the time, they were excluded from everything just because they didn’t speak as clearly.

      And that’s just what I noticed from waiting on customers. If they’re friends, why isn’t OP empathetic?

      • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I know 🫂 It’s horrible. You should also read their other posts.

        Either this is a bot/troll or she is mentally ill with no empathy.

    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comOPEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      That’s the user that keeps asking why their friends don’t like them when they only respond with one worders or all caps, right? Yes, that is one of the users I was referring to, lol

  • Alice@beehaw.org
    14·
    1 day ago

    Everyone’s saying bots but I think some of it is human-generated ragebait. Like that person who posted twice like “why did my friend block me” with screenshots of them devolving into crytyping as they tell said friend how stupid they are for being autistic.

    (I took that bait, don’t judge, it was cathartic 😔)

    As for why, I couldn’t tell you. Maybe they’re not getting enough engagement on Reddit anymore or maybe it’s not fun because Reddit already hates autistic people and will side with them. Who knows.

    • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      What’s crytyping, I’ve never heard that word before 😅

      I would sure hate to be that person, assuming it’s not an alt or someone who’s in on the bait (like their sibling pretending to be the other person)

      • Alice@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 hours ago

        I guess it’s more of a Tumblr term. It refers to when someone starts typing really sloppily to signify they’re having a breakdown.

        I guess it’s kind of a mean term but I really think people should walk away from the keyboard if they get to that point.

        • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Ohhh. I mean, she was still treating her friends like crap and that says a lot about her

    • Aurora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Oh yeah, that person was banned from my instance 😂

      I genuinely can’t tell if that was a bot, a troll, or an emotionally unstable person.

      From what I remembered, recent account, no profile picture, barely commented.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    251·
    1 day ago

    I think the questions are from bots, testing topics to farm controversy or outrage points. The greater the number of replies, the more likely the topic will be used in a future marketing or agit-prop campaign.

    So you get these really stupid, controversial, psychopathic takes that no one should be taking seriously. The point of the exercise is the emotional reaction, the outrage, not getting a serious answer.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      I don’t know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.

      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        53 minutes ago

        Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so…

  • runiq@feddit.org
    69·
    2 days ago

    Hello, may I acquaint you with our lord and saviour, Artificial Intelligence?

    Edit: That came across way more flippant than I’d intended it to be; I apologize. Yeah, I’ve noticed it too, you’re not alone.

    • Elaine@lemm.ee
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Personally, every time I see a “Where did all this racism come from?” type post, I always wonder if OP is twelve years old.

    • puntinoblue@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’ve noticed it too. I came here because Reddit has become increasingly toxic, with bots of outrage and division thriving there. I really hope Lemmy doesn’t follow the same path, but I suspect efforts will be made to make alternatives to controlled media even more toxic. I’m not sure what the best strategies are to counter this kind of malevolence.

  • Anna@lemmy.ml
    81·
    1 day ago

    Hey most people here have never encountered any other human being who wasn’t involved in their creation.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I blocked NSQ because a bot is a mod. I don’t see anything particularly odd here. It just seems like people asking general random stuff like real people