• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      6·
      4 months ago

      I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the “bots” or “shills” or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I’ve yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they’re not to influence politics. The only actual bots I’ve seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 months ago

    There is a bot that posts nothing but links to reddit threads. I could block it or bots in general but then I won’t be able to downvote the posts it makes. It moderates the communities it posts to so reporting it would do fuck all.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 months ago

      AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      you could make a bot that downvotes their posts and still block them.

      only way to stop a bad bot with a bot is a good bot with a bot.

  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    Just my guess - meant to bait people into making various threats to see how well Palantir’s social media monitoring works at the fringes.

    Be careful out there, y’all.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
    2·
    4 months ago

    I’m not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don’t need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 months ago

    Some people block political threads, so all that’s left are those that don’t block them… which tends to be people who strongly believe in their opinions or want to use it as a soapbox to rant… so there’s rarely any just “chill” opinions or nuanced takes. Almost everyone on a political thread is gonna be angry at something… against one side, cheering for the destruction of one side… or both sides…

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    A bunch of the ABWD sleepers reactivated recently. I don’ think they are bots, but after a year of being very quiet, they all came out of their termite holes after being quiet for about a year.