Why does it seem that on larger platforms there are bots that downvote comments?

You can tell it's bots because all the downvotes happen at the same time. I can guess for astroturfing purposes one would want to upvote their targeted comments and downvote all others but on lemmy?

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[โ€“] 4 points 4 months ago

I don't care about the downvotes. I intentionally view ALL posts in the feed, I don't hide anything just because of low score. The lowest score might be the best!

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