Well thats crazy explicit astroturfing
Well thats crazy explicit astroturfing
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13586199
Taking the fight to Reddit... FOR MONEY.
“You must do this for me but you must use your own money!!”
I just found out that those pages to buy votes exist, I knew that bots and stuff existed, but I thought it was something more "hidden", from 4 cents per vote, it doesn't surprise me that the site is completely going down the toilet
In some impoverished regions, vote farming is an important (and sometimes only) source of some people's income. Create account, upvote post, dozens or hundreds of times a day. They get paid slave wages, if at all.
If I owned those bot voting sites, this is what I’d do.
I can’t tell if this is astroturfing or high-level trolling. Encouraging MAGAts to piss away their money and actually give a damn about Reddit sounds like a pretty evil strategy to me.
I'd die laughing if someone was able to do this on Lemmy and buy something like 3k votes, an unseen number. Or better yet, 30k votes. You'd be on All and see that and know something was up.
Thank goodness we're too small and unimportant for them to interrupt my Linux and Startrek memes with that nonsense.
Unfortunately, this has happened and is likely still happening on lemmy (mostly for comments and not posts). see here.
Heard about that. It's not though to push some weird conservative view to top of all but I imagine it's a setup for is Lemmy ever becomes profitable.
Nonono see these Lemmy users who constantly push Jill Stein said this doesn't happen so it obviously doesn't happen.
