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[–]chottohen[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Did you read the article that gives an estimate of the percentage of twitter accounts that are bots? It is estimated at 50%. Do you want to hazard a guess as to what percent of accounts on saidit are bots?

[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you want to hazard a guess as to what percent of accounts on saidit are bots?

Zero? Who the fuck would waste their time making a Saidit bot?

The reason why Reddit and Twitter are overwhelmingly bots is because they're so big, that makes them a lucrative place to manipulate people. Someone running a couple thousand bots can use those to manipulate millions of people.

I don't know how many users Saidit has, but I'd guess it's probably around 10-20 thousand. That's barely a rounding error for most marketing companies and influencers.

[–]chottohen[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good point but I have been tracked, and still am, by a human or bot on saidit. I am almost certain that entity has my root as my cursor sometimes moves on its own. Sounds like I'm nuts? No, it is true. I believe the entity is Israeli since it becomes active after I post something about Israel. Many other sites in saidit's league have closed down and there are few remaining in the US with saidit's somewhat conservative mindset. So if anyone/anything was in the past assigned to track accounts on the sites that have closed down, they may have moved here. Believe me they are out there but not selling products. They want to harass any users that openly call them out. I am not a raving antisemite but I call the situation as I see it.

All I have to do is a clean reinstall but I keep putting it off. I'm not a newb on saidit but had to change my username a few months ago. Happy but careful browsing to you.

[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am almost certain that entity has my root as my cursor sometimes moves on its own.

That has nothing to do with Saidit. Sounds like your machine has been compromised. Wipe it and install Linux immediately. Probably not government. It's probably just some hacker hoping you type in your bank account password, so they can steal all your money, or just use your machine as a zombie in their bot network.