I’ve not yet noticed any deviations from the norm
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.
AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.
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.
Maybe there’s just a higer percentage of neurospicy people on the fediverse.
Either way that doesn’t sound fun :( stay safe!
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.
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.
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…
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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.
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