Conservative Bots and Bad Actors Are Swarming R/Millenials Right Now
Conservative Bots and Bad Actors Are Swarming R/Millenials Right Now
It's unbelievable how vocal the minority of conservatives on reddit have suddenly gotten in the one sub where a large demographic of important voters often interact. Hmmm. Coincidence?
They even try to do this on Lemmy. I've seen a few accounts recently that were obviously created with the sole purpose of spreading right-wing propaganda.
As someone who is routinely accused of being a bad actor, I have to say I find this speculation to be somewhat paranoid.
I think people generally overestimate the commonality of their own perspective.
I'm sorry you've had a bad experience. Nevertheless, I think that a certain basic skepticism is important in social media, because it is simply a fact that many interest groups on the internet are fighting for sovereignty of interpretation and use enormous resources to assert themselves - even with very questionable methods. This of course makes it difficult to build trust and have an open discourse. The advantage of Lemmy, however, is that at least the platform itself does not interfere too much, like Meta, X or TikTok do. Therefore, it seems to me that there is a much higher probability that you will be heard with your opinion, message or whatever, if you can provide good arguments for your point of view. Sure, there are some viewpoints that users reject despite good arguments, but from my Lemmy experience so far, that seems to me to be the exception rather than the rule.
There are several things that lots of bad actors and bots say frequently enough that if someone says it, it may be faster to assume paid shill than to take the extra time to vet someone or give their opinion real thought.
This extends to more than just politics.
what makes you think they aren't sincerely held beliefs being posted by real people?
Looks they are getting shutdown kind of hard too. We ain’t dumb
You've been duped.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/
Seems to be the "real" subreddit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/millenials
With a missing second "n" seems to be a bot filled hell hole.
But also, I only left reddit a year ago and have never heard of the sub so who knows.
Also remember that Reddit as a whole is only going to get worse. The only goal is to make as much money as possible before it crashes in a cesspool of pure garbage like Facebook or Twitter.
I wonder what the ratio of Russian to American bots is.
Do you have a few examples of American bots, I'm intrigued now...
All I see is anti Trump submissions?
Meanwhile on the r/JordanPeterson sub right now, there's a complaint about leftwing bots on r/millennials
https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/1e8cwwh/uptick_in_propaganda_bots_or_post/le6m8jo/
...oh r/millennials says there's two subs... r/millennials and r/millenials with one n... Maybe that's part of what's going on.
Wow I thought this was just more reddit hate at first but you were lying.
What's a 'reddit'?