Me in the last few weeks. Its majority bots and fake redditors from India nowadays. Every time theres a discussion that is against the billionaires agenda you can watch them flood in to brigade it. Its just not even worth my time anymore.
I hope Lemmy is taking notes and does something to prevent the same happening here.
Given how spread-out Lemmy is, it’ll be pretty hard to screw it in the same way Reddit got screwed, though. Like, if a given instance doesn’t like you, or you don’t like that given instance, there are plenty of others for you to move to, or you could host your own if you have the hardware and admin skills.
Unfortunately, it’s something that should be incredibly easy to do given the nature of the fediverse. Plus they can easily analyze a user’s upvote/downvote behaviour over here.
Being Scottish and spending time in r/Scotland made this pretty obvious. Scots use language patterns, slang, and colloquialisms that come from Gaelic, Doric or Scots that needs knowledge and experience to interpret. Bots/paid brigaders trip up because they dont understand meaning or context. They are instantly recognisable.
There is 100% a well-funded project to influence political thinking. Mention anything about right-wing politicians, bigotry, lgbtq+ rights, the environment etc. and it triggers some action. They all pile on, thread makes it to ‘all’, thread gets locked. Rinse and repeat.
Me in the last few weeks. Its majority bots and fake redditors from India nowadays. Every time theres a discussion that is against the billionaires agenda you can watch them flood in to brigade it. Its just not even worth my time anymore.
I hope Lemmy is taking notes and does something to prevent the same happening here.
Given how spread-out Lemmy is, it’ll be pretty hard to screw it in the same way Reddit got screwed, though. Like, if a given instance doesn’t like you, or you don’t like that given instance, there are plenty of others for you to move to, or you could host your own if you have the hardware and admin skills.
Ahh. Good point. I hope it doesnt happen but I’d be amazed if bots aren’t at least scanning lemmy and injesting what is being discussed.
Unfortunately, it’s something that should be incredibly easy to do given the nature of the fediverse. Plus they can easily analyze a user’s upvote/downvote behaviour over here.
it does make sense INDIA subs are making the front page quite alot.
Being Scottish and spending time in r/Scotland made this pretty obvious. Scots use language patterns, slang, and colloquialisms that come from Gaelic, Doric or Scots that needs knowledge and experience to interpret. Bots/paid brigaders trip up because they dont understand meaning or context. They are instantly recognisable.
There is 100% a well-funded project to influence political thinking. Mention anything about right-wing politicians, bigotry, lgbtq+ rights, the environment etc. and it triggers some action. They all pile on, thread makes it to ‘all’, thread gets locked. Rinse and repeat.