It’s account age, percentage of high karma posts, and AI callouts in their most recent post that I looked for. I think the bottom of my pic has an autogen that seemed human on first glance.

I just left, I'd say 60-70% bots

You know moderators use bots to generate posts and vote up or down replies ? The karma points required to post on most subreddits are so high only the mods can post. And the moderators on Lemmy do the same, only they can only lock out users from their own sub. Reddit auto-generates user names when using Gmail or an Android phone.

true - i think there are less russian bots on lemmy now the userbase is so low

i guess the russian bots will ramp up again for the us elections

Honestly, I still regularly participate in some of them, mostly mechanical keyboard, sports, and local stuff.

If I want to shitpost or grumble or discuss new-to-me stuff with real people then I do it here, but for niche interests that are poorly represented here but hit a critical mass there, while staying small enough to avoid front-page attention or (god-forbid) becoming a default sub, Reddit still has some value. Old with RES and "Dystopia for Reddit" are still hanging on by the skin of their teeth, so that makes the experience itself less awful.

They’re at least human, if they are who I think they are.

Surprised? That’s not the right word. “Disgusted” is closer. It’s like going to the grocery and seeing someone smoking meth at the bus stop across the way. It’s not surprising in the least, but by Jove does it sadden me. Particularly when half of the stop is filled with people smoking meth.

That describes every uncatered online community that I’ve ever been in. And there have been a lot. The Reddit screenshot is 2/15 politics rage, and I just checked our unfiltered active sort, which held 4/20. I don’t see much difference, besides having humans rather than bots.

Gotta block negative communities and people, and subscribe to the mentally beneficial places here, same as nearly everywhere else on the internet pre-algorithms.

New, high point total accounts are nearly always bots.

From what I can tell, lemmy users tend to be more open to discussion and on most things a lot less echo chambery.

In reddit going against the grain gets you downvoted or banned by an overzealous mod.

At least on lemmy people mostly will give you a counterargument, or at worst ignore you.

To be fair I have hated the world since I was 13.

then leave. bye