[hypeit]

A human is not a bot. In addition to being dehumanizing, it removes agency to say that.

[ceejayoz]

Pretending large groups of humans can't possibly be influenced to do things is lunacy.

We do weird things in crowds even without intentional propaganda at play. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8091

[bluefishinit]

That's not a "botnet" though, advertising does the same thing. We don't call the people buying things they've been marketed a "botnet".

[butlike]

I'm a human, and I identify as a "bot," so there.