• @Foni@lemm.ee
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    183 hours ago

    I just found out that those pages to buy votes exist, I knew that bots and stuff existed, but I thought it was something more “hidden”, from 4 cents per vote, it doesn’t surprise me that the site is completely going down the toilet

    • @rtxn@lemmy.world
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      62 hours ago

      In some impoverished regions, vote farming is an important (and sometimes only) source of some people’s income. Create account, upvote post, dozens or hundreds of times a day. They get paid slave wages, if at all.

  • magnetosphere
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    112 hours ago

    I can’t tell if this is astroturfing or high-level trolling. Encouraging MAGAts to piss away their money and actually give a damn about Reddit sounds like a pretty evil strategy to me.

  • @_bcron@lemmy.world
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    52 hours ago

    Russian propaganda mills probably shaking their heads in disbelief that the only grassroots activists are sitting in their basement not doorknocking but trying to figure out how to spend money to influence people over the internet