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Lemmy.World Bots and the Fediverse's Leniency towards Licking Boots (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am curious what can be done about the Lemmy.World era of botting corpo comments to protect their investments?

Anything remotely federated w/ LW has a massive hard-on for corporations (anti-piracy boot-lickers only added us back when we had the largest community in the fediverse), racism (you ain't american, you aint right), a desire to troll/argue in bad faith, and a general "fuck you, I have 500 accounts to down-vote with."

I myself have over 60 accounts on Lemmy.World; and because of that, I am 100% certain somebody has a type of SMM portal to scan for keywords and upvote/downvote accordingly.

Don't believe me?

Go post about Apple, Facebook, Tesla, or any other 1% owned entity, and watch which accounts upvote/downvote in less time than required to read the post.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure lw admins don't want sock puppets and bot accounts either. They have access to ip info and other details and other users are also vigilant against it. But against dedicated actors there's no perfect protection, no matter the countermeasures. If there's instances which are enabling this behaviour more overtly, they tend to get defederated

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The moderation over the aforementioned accounts seems... one sided to say the least

I (read: IMHO) would argue that they do want sock puppet/bot accounts because it boosts the perceived traffic by laymen, yeah?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Don't assume malice so easily. Running around fediverse server is a lot of work and it's also unpaid work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To add on to my point above, the only reason that they re-federated w/ us is because of the traffic they were losing to the the "tiny" community here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

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

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]