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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 9 hours agoI don’t doubt such approaches are used. They almost certainly are. I ma just wondering if Threadi is large enough for anyone to bother (be it oligarch backed groups or independent conmen).
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Dunno. Where there are some eyeballs, there’s some market for influence. Obviously someone is bothering, but as for how much money is being thrown at the fediverse at this moment, I would guess somewhere between “peanuts” and “small potatoes”. On the other hand I imagine a bot trained here could be deployed elsewhere with little effort, similar to how a reddit bot can be deployed to lemmy with a little bit of rework, so maybe it’s seen as a low-risk training ground. In any case I don’t see it being a problem that gets less salient as the fediverse grows.
SteveKLord@slrpnk.net 38 minutes ago
Thank you everyone for reporting this, constructively discussing in comments and using downvotes appropriately to bring to our attention. After reviewing the account and reaching out to them to no avail, along with their lack of response to community members, we’ve decided it is likely a bot account and have followed many other community mods in banning them from this community. Thanks again all for helping keep discussions constructive here.