It's easy to tell from fediverse observer stats that most of the new users aren't not organic: new accounts is almost a couple orders of magnitude higher than daily active users
FrostBolt
joined 1 year ago
What I wonder is: what's the motivation for these bot network attackers? Is it some script kiddie doing it for lulz? A reddit "nationalist"? Russia and China getting an early start on propaganda tools for the newer platforms?
That's a great idea
Same here. I had used reddit since 2010 and must have had close to a dozen accounts. I didn’t like too much info piling up under any one account. And I used a local city subreddit a lot.
Use a pseudonym that you don’t use anywhere else and don’t dox yourself in your posts or comments
They can’t keep their story straight. First the protest is “noise” that will “blow over”. Now they’re forcing subs to re-open.
Look, even if the protest “fails”, they stick to the API pricing, and forcefully re-open subs, some things will be obvious and for everyone to see that weren’t before:
- spez is lying and isn’t trustworthy
- reddit cares more about IPO positioning and money than the health of the community
- people are willing to explore alternatives like this fediverse
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… a long time