It's very clear that this forum is entirely busted out by the bots. But I'm wondering if this forum was ever real. It seems like the use of bots to promote Chapo had gotten so obvious that Reddit had to deplatform or have to explain why they're letting 100k marketing bots run wild on the platform.

When a platform is more fake than real it hits an inflection point and can never come back. Some programmers at youtube realized that once bots were 51% of the activity, the learning algorithm would start thinking THAT is the actual human behavior and humans would be targeted by bot removal tools.

But platforms like Hexbear and Parler and tik tok are so interesting because they were started at a time when everyone in the world seems to have a product they want to sell on social media. When a platform is started and immediately flooded by marketing bots, it can NEVER recover.

So was this a place for 100 or so leftists to complain about economics that turned into a metric generator for The Atlantic and other rightwing rags or was it always that?

What percentage of the posts here are written by humans rather than just word salad cobbled stitched together from old reddit comments?