Lately, I’ve recognized many posts from very new accounts here, usually younger than a day. They post a couple of news articles and are never to be seen again.
I’ve checked this communitiy’s modlog and many new accounts get banned relatively quickly. Their behaviour is eerily similar, even their profile pictures have similar styles, so it seems to be the same origin.
Out of curiosity, is there some lore I missed?
More seriously, I think we users in this community maybe should be more conscious about this and stop interacting with posts from these profiles.
Dunno if my post makes any sense, it’s just something weird I noticed and wanted to say something about.
Is Lemmy important enough to attract bots with malicious political intentions? A victory for us.
On a more serious note, I don’t know of any truly effective way to prevent that beyond sheer, hard work and restraint, and even then it’s never easy to distinguish bad intention of legitimate dissenting opinions.
Anything is game to push once narrative
We all have a narrative and try to convince others; that’s what dialogue in forums is all about. The difference is whether it’s done in good faith, trying to debate, learn and share, or in bad faith, diverting, deceiving and pushing misleading debates to promote hidden ideas.
It is not always easy to distinguish one from another, and organized groups take advantage of that.
They are not writing any comments though and if then it is only posting links.
It’s not even as if they express opinions. They only post links (usually of articles). 10 to 30 of them before abandoning the accounts. Why the throwaway accounts?
Are the news articles paywalled/ad supported/propagandistic?
Perhaps someone just trying to get more views to those sites?
Then why does has the person abandoned dozens of accounts for the past few months instead of consistently posting on the same account?
It has been an issue since at least two months ago first starting on lemmy.world