Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?

• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Lol, I want to live in your world.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You honestly think the fascists and oligarchs are aiming for lemmy? We’re not a blip, not even a sparrow, on the social media radar.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_social_platforms_with_…

    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?!

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Agreed on influencing say influencers (e.g. decision makers in corporate IT for example who presumably would be somewhere on here)

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      • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No way. It’s definitely impossible for us to ever be deceived. Get a hold of yourself

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I used to think like that until on the e-mail address I had for my lemmy.world account (an account which I left following that) I started getting e-mails in my native language from an organisation based in Tel-Aviv inviting me to attent a “learn about Israel” online course.

  This was when I was already very vocal about the actions of Israel in Gaza.

  That e-mail wasn’t public and as far as I know only server Admins have access to that stuff.

  When the largest Lemmy instance is infiltrated at the Admin level by state actors (and that’s also very clearly the case for Moderation in the main forums there, as reflected by their moderation actions with even one Moderator of the news forum being very openly Zionist in his posts elsewhere), the idea that there are bots and sockpuppets around in Lemmy trying to shift opinions for the benefit of nations and even large political forces, isn’t exactly outrageous.

  I mean, if I remember it correctly the budget of Israel’s Hasbara ops is somewhere around $1 billion a year, so plenty of money to have a few people at least part time trying to influence a place with maybe a few hundred thousand people, like Lemmy.

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• Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There is a phenomenon going on right now where tiny sites are getting knocked offline due to sudden traffic, basically DDOSing them. It has been found that the automation of these bot farms sends out scrapers to find new places where you can post on the site. Like anything, anything hat allows you to post anything on the site. So it will find some tiny store’s webfront, see it has a place for customer reviews, and then tell the bot farm it has found new land. The place then gets swarmed with bot traffic.

  So literally everywhere you can post anything is getting bot traffic right now.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  From personal experience, this is definitely untrue.

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