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Experts: No Way to Truly Know if Redditor You're Arguing With Is Bot or Child (hard-drive.net)

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[–] blanketswithsmallpox -1 points 8 months ago

That's a bad method especially on Lemmy which prides itself on friendliness.

I've seen a minor increase in people willing to reply and bring actual sauce to discussion. I've still never seen anyone willing to change their mind despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Even when you have a username like my which goads people into ad hominems using fake historical earworms lol.

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