I am curious what can be done about the Lemmy.World era of botting corpo comments to protect their investments?
Anything remotely federated w/ LW has a massive hard-on for corporations (anti-piracy boot-lickers only added us back when we had the largest community in the fediverse), racism (you ain’t american, you aint right), a desire to troll/argue in bad faith, and a general “fuck you, I have 500 accounts to down-vote with.”
I myself have over 60 accounts on Lemmy.World; and because of that, I am 100% certain somebody has a type of SMM portal to scan for keywords and upvote/downvote accordingly.
Don’t believe me?
Go post about Apple, Facebook, Tesla, or any other 1% owned entity, and watch which accounts upvote/downvote in less time than required to read the post.
Webhook the word “Spotify” and watch the same 20 accounts agree on the sentiment of their owner
Maybe we could have some kind of Astroturfer and/or spammer tracking feature in Fediseer to help curb the influence of accounts like this, if an instance bans these people for astroturfing the users can be flagged on Fediseer for this purpose so other instances can do the same. They probably won’t be banned by Lemmy.world but if they’re banned by other instances their effect becomes limited to Lemmy.world.