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I had a couple of new followers in bluesky. A new follower DMed me. He asked how I was, I said I was good. Then he asked where I was from and when I said I prefer not to say, he said he understands and that he wanted to know more about me. I told him my interests and such and didn't give any important information about myself. He too told me about his hobbies. Then he asked about my location once again. When I declined once again he said that he understands "not being cool enough to say where you are from". That was an odd thing to say. I got creeped out and blocked him. Is this normal? Why would anyone want to know about each other's location?

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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 77 points 18 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Pot8o@aussie.zone 25 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Your comments are tagged as being from a bot, was that intentional for this joke lol

[–] Pot8o@aussie.zone 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

No, but that's hilarious! I wonder if it's because of the stereotypical answer to the A/S/L question?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

That's cause of your account settings. Uncheck robot/bot option.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, can real users be tagged as bots? Surely they'd complain and have it fixed quite quickly?

I saw this bot reply and just instinctively downvoted and blocked it, can't stand Reddit/Lemmy bots that don't serve a useful purpose (like unit conversion or haiku's) haha.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone can label themself as a bot in the Lemmy user settings, sometimes users do so mistakenly

[–] Pot8o@aussie.zone 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Aaaaand that's apparently what I did. My excuse is I'm old and an idiot.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

No problem, I've seen it happen a few times so I thought I'd ask πŸ˜„

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

The two main bots in my IRC bot network were named Man14 and Girl41

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 18 points 17 hours ago

That make me feel old lol and bring back some mIRC memory

[–] kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 15 points 17 hours ago

American/Sign/Language.

[–] Karl@programming.dev 6 points 16 hours ago (4 children)
[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chonkyninja@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Are ya winning son?

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 14 points 16 hours ago

Age/Sex/Location

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah - back in the day A/S/L was asked so you had a rough idea of the type of person you were talking (typing) with…

37/M/India v 15/F/US would give you a very rough idea of the demographic the other person belonged to - and might shape your conversation differently.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

and as internet lore of old says: that 15/F/US was either a 30 y/o living in their mum's basement or an FBI agent

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Which was weird, because I remember being 14 in the late 90s, and EVERYONE was 14-16/F/Cali.

And I'd always say "Oh, sorry. I'm 14, but I'm from Ohio".

I wonder how many FBI agents I pissed off.