If it helps, I definitely didn't think it was AI even after that comment primed me to consider it. There were one or two parts where I went "this is a pattern I see in AI, but mostly that's because it's a common writing structure in the stuff AI was trained on." I am also ND, though.

But also, it annoys me so deeply how many common things in human writing that AI picked up specifically because humans used it are now considered hallmarks of AI. Like, I get it, but also, don't fuck with my em-dash.

From us, Dad! AI learned it from watching us!!

i’ve read that ND people do get mistaken a lot for AI in writings! i feel you.

I believe you, and I feel for you. The saddest part about AI is how it has tainted all high-effort, carefully organized work to the point that it makes it hard to distinguish between the most trustworthy content and the least trustworthy. We need better tools for information provenance. Like I said, the first thing I did was look into your backgrounds to try to understand "is this some AI slop bot or a real person with a real brain" and everything I looked at suggested it being legit and that's why I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt. But that doubt is everywhere nowadays. It's rough out there.

Ah, I was going to ask whether you happen to read a lot of AI generated text since that could have obv influenced your style

It's very well written. This is just AI affecting how people view well-organized, nicely-formatted, and clear writing these days. Thanks for keeping us updated on the progress of the fediverse and for doing it so thoroughly!