• Stormy@thelemmy.club
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    17 hours ago

    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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      16 hours 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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        5 hours ago

        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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          I mean the purpose of disinformation is to create disinformed people, so unless they have a very conspicuous activity history, idk why people assume any account posting that stuff is a bot