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[+] 50 points 8 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I wonder if there are safe guards to stop a bot army from impacting the discourse, or if it's just because it's a less known platform.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there's no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.

    Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I'm sure some people will have done just that.

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  • [+] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nah i saw some infections earlier today on few politcal posts. It was just blatantly calling ukrainians nazis and 2022 style Russian disinfo, and rt.com news. I got in trouble for reporting it by the admins, and was belittled by the crowd.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?

    astroturing implies they get paid.

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