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(Meta) What's up with the recent influx of posts here and on nostupidquestions asking borderline insane questions as if written by people who have never encountered another human before? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

To quote one of their posts directly: "I view people as more tools than anything, and I’m working on being nicer. I say this with 100% honesty, not because I’m being mean. I still feel like I deserve friends, though.". They also post about calling their basketball teammates useless and about hiding behind other players so they aren't actually open to receive passes (but somehow this is a failure of the team's strategy?)

If it's a real person, then I wouldn't necessarily call them malicious but definitely lacking in empathy. But I'm leaning more towards it being a troll.