Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.

They've been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren't Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it's bots or wumao. Human beings can't possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      We really need more bots. Amber bot, for old times sake, a bot bot, a combat liberalism bot that uses an LLM to make up completely unhinged mao quotes about doing kung-fu at Rothbard.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I thought we had an amber bot. I think lemmygrad has a parenti quote bot

          • keepcarrot [she/her]
            ·
            1 year ago

            Idk, haven't seen it in a while. Maybe one of the recent updates broke it

          • Abracadaniel [he/him]
            ·
            1 year ago

            Hexbear codebase merging back into Lemmy broke it :(

            (Before federation)

            • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I miss it. Going "who's everyone's favorite Chapo? Mine's Amber." Thereby triggering the bot and editing my post to say Will was peak posting

          • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm the amber bot dev. The API change broke it and I just didn't have enough free time to fix it. Gonna try to get it back up this weekend

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        I have some free time in between jobs coming up. I'm thinking of working on some hobby programming projects. I think it'd be fun to work on some lemmy-compatible bots. I'm open to ideas on what they should do.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        honestly, a combat liberalism bot that responds to comments with "lib", "liberalism" or the lib emoji with a randomly selected description of one of the types of liberalism and maybe one of the mao emojis could be so simple and elegant.

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      1 year ago

      There’s a bot flag option in settings that might be fun to turn on for this account to go with the bit. It adds an extra icon indication by the name.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I love that Reddit was like "You know what Reddit needs? An officially sanction "KYS" button.

      • ButtBidet [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        This is a bit of local humor. Sorry that you're on the receiving end of it. It's not meant to genuinely attack you. No one here thinks that you're a bot.