Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days agoYou honestly think the fascists and oligarchs are aiming for lemmy? We’re not a blip, not even a sparrow, on the social media radar.
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Say I’m paying you to go out there and influence people. I’d fire you if you came back and said you hit lemmy with your time and my money.
How many people do you know IRL that have even heard of lemmy?!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Sometimes it’s not just the numbers but who those numbers are. Depending on what you’re trying to achieve, influencing all the techy Linux nerds that seem to make up Lemmy might be more helpful than just blowing into the wind for as many as possible on Twitter or whatever.
I’ve got no data either way on this, just some basic social engineering training for work.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Can’t see anyone bothering with lemmy’s pathetic user count, not for a few years at least. Like I said, were I paying you for social engineering, I’d be more than disappointed if you went after us.
Maybe your training taught you something I don’t know? If you’re talking about social engineering in the context of IT, I get that bit, taught classes on it myself.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 days ago
It’s not always about the user count though. It’s about your end goals. There’s two types of social engineering. Mass and targeted. You’re focusing on the mass social engineering.
Say you want specific information on how Crowdstrike works. You could launch a massive social engineering campaign on Twitter but if you don’t catch any of the engineers who work at Crowdstrike then what’s the point? You just spent all that money for nothing. It would be better to find where those engineers socialize online and try to inject yourself there, doesn’t matter the size of that community and it could very well be on Lemmy in one of the programmer communities.
Now if you want to convince the entire world of something then yeah, focus on the big user counts, don’t worry about the small fry communities. It’s all about your end goal.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 days ago
I love the civility of this exchange. It’s why I left reddit. Thanks!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Agreed on influencing say influencers (e.g. decision makers in corporate IT for example who presumably would be somewhere on here)
Carnelian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No way. It’s definitely impossible for us to ever be deceived. Get a hold of yourself