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minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoDoesn’t mean that the fediverse is immune. News stories and narratives are still fought over by actors on all sides and sometimes by entities that might be bots. And there are a lot of auto-generating content bots that post stuff or repost old content from other sites like Reddit.
minus-squareAggressivelyPassive@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoEspecially since being immune to censorship is kind of the point of the fediverse. If you’re even a tiny bit smart about it, you can start hundreds of sock puppet instances and flood other instances with bullshit.
Doesn’t mean that the fediverse is immune.
News stories and narratives are still fought over by actors on all sides and sometimes by entities that might be bots. And there are a lot of auto-generating content bots that post stuff or repost old content from other sites like Reddit.
Especially since being immune to censorship is kind of the point of the fediverse.
If you’re even a tiny bit smart about it, you can start hundreds of sock puppet instances and flood other instances with bullshit.