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[–] 72 points 11 months ago (14 children)

I do find it interesting that thousands of discrete devices is somehow easier than them virtualising them devices.

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Virtualization is easily detected.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah but why would facebook/x bother to check? Engagement is engagement. They already know there are millions of bots and don’t care.

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago

    My guess: it is a low hanging fruit and then they can say "Look! We blocked X million bots! So you can trust the users that are left...... please don't look into it any more"

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    shareholders want real users, not bots. Facebook has to tell shareholders that real eyeballs are looking at ads, not virtual ones. Facebook is an adtech company—all tech they develop further establishes their advertisement empire, if advertisers (or more specifically, investors) find out ads on facebook aren't worth their value, then facebook dies.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely but so does reddit, they all make a great effort to not notice bot accounts.

    It would be easy to identity many bots by their browsing habits and other digital markers but they obfuscate all data that may give an indication of real users because, as you say, any drop in reported users is a drop in ad value.

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Probably it's cheaper to get 60 used low-end devices than one device that can run 60 copies of the Facebook app.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    Forgive my ignorance, why is there a wall of cellphones?

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  • [–] 75 points 11 months ago* (14 children)

    This is what a bot farm looks like

    aka this is who you’re arguing with online.

    This is what a lot of Lemmy traffic comes from.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    How is it used? Are they remotely controlled by computer somehow or do they need someone going from phone to phone, putting stuff in manually?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    How much is a lot in this context?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Stick around long enough and pay attention and you’ll see.

    Things relating to: Israel, Gaza, discussions of capitalism, “east” vs “west”, USA imperialism, the Uyghur Genocide, the genocide of the Palestinian people, the cultural revolution, great leap, Soviets, etc

    ^ suddenly there are a lot more people on Lemmy when these topics come up. Voting is transparent.

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    A watermark and a social media user, gross.

    Back in my day we had standards and people were expected to crop out all that bullshit before posting a meme.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    and not just any social media: threads

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  • [+] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I agree with this. I'll even say fine follow the ugly conventions in those spaces and use watermarks to push people to leftist channels on those platforms.

    That said, we are deep in the trenches here in this Lemmy community, not in the friendly outreach programs, so when dropping your meme here specifically, crop that bullshit out.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago

    It's sadly very wrong.

    The person selling the hat is also making fun and laughing at you. And has your personal information

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Oh man, good thing they changed colors and bolded part of it. I would have been totally lost.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Man I should build a pyramid.

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  • [+] -17 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    I bet OP believes that being the 2nd worst political party in the nation makes the democrats the good guys.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    One guy is a middle aged state clerk doing what he can.

    The other guy is a serial repeat offender rapist burglar violent pedophile that shits in your mouth and tells you to like it or gonna shoot you.

    And without fail you vote for the rapist burglar violent pedophile every single time. "Both parties" my cunt, you're just a fascist bootlicker and for some reason you can't even admit it or stand for your beliefs, you are so pathetic you try to excuse the vomit that infests your soul by blaming others for not being as big of a degenerate as you are.

    Just get fucked, we're done playing that game.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It's so fucking obvious that we only have one real choice, because of FPTP! Someone who's doing what he can should voice any opposition whatsoever to this blindingly obvious problem.

    Any degenerate who pretends to not know what FPTP forces us to do is clearly in favor of its fascist result.

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