Because as soon as there’s a commercially relevant number of eyeballs on lemmy driving clicks to commercially interested targets, for example websites paid for clicks, placed ads or political misinformation becomes more than a hobby for a bunch of nerds, it just becomes business
it’s easier to create multiple accounts on fediverse than on mainstream social media websites. Then just upvote your own posts with the bots.
Why would any individual person go to this much trouble for upvotes?
That sounds more like what a country would do to infect the people with their propaganda
clicks. everyone likes more views to their
contentads.Because as soon as there’s a commercially relevant number of eyeballs on lemmy driving clicks to commercially interested targets, for example websites paid for clicks, placed ads or political misinformation becomes more than a hobby for a bunch of nerds, it just becomes business