Post #4068480
2026-07-16 16:22 UTC
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@ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-17 05:57
I’m genuinely curious to know how those people end up in those coms or on the Fediverse at all. I don’t get the impression they keep tabs on this part of the internet. Back in the day, random people falling into random internet corners was a product of boredom and a relative openness to trying out new Internet forums, I feel like most non-techy people just would not step anywhere outside of like eight walled gardens now
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@otter@lemmy.ca 2026-07-16 21:55
The mod in !selfhosted@lemmy.world has done a good job of updating the rules to deal with those. It seems like some SEO or supply chain scheme. The ones mentioned in OP seem to be one user that is spreading their questions around multiple accounts, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if they’re posted at a rate that would be fine with a single account, and if they aren’t using more than one account in a particular thread. From what I remember about the deletion pattern, one of the accounts claimed to be doing it for mental health reasons. Whether that is true or not, to me it felt like they were creating bait posts to rile people up. People saw through it most of the time We do have bots, but at least some of the weird activity mentioned in this post seems to be from a handful of real people that are using the platform in a weird way