• @[email protected]
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    481 year ago

    This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

    The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

      • @demlet
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        61 year ago

        What that is?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          481 year ago

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

          The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.[1][2][3][4] These intelligent bots are assumed to have been made, in part, to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to ultimately manipulate consumers.[5] Further, proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception.[1] The date given for this “death” is generally around 2016 or 2017.

          • @demlet
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            11 year ago

            deleted by creator

      • @marmo7ade
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