• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Why wouldn’t they be?

      It’s not like it costs money to creat accounts, or post/comment,

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        3 months ago

        This is a tiny place, and unlike reddit, there’s not enough history that you can just make bots repost old threads and comments or buy old accounts to generate fake histories without people catching on, and the admins of the instances would probably call it out if they noticed anything awry.

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          You can repost the exact same screenshots of tweets in the fuck_{subject} communities one to two times a day and get showered in upvotes.

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        3 months ago

        Would you show me what lead you to believe this? Do you have any evidence of an account whose actions are consistent with those of a bot? Say reposting old comments as a response to a repost to build fake history, or pretending to be one thing in one case and not others, or a sudden shift in content indicating the account was sold?

        Or is it just easier to believe as it gives you an excuse not to examine your own beliefs?