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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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What I wonder is: what's the motivation for these bot network attackers? Is it some script kiddie doing it for lulz? A reddit "nationalist"? Russia and China getting an early start on propaganda tools for the newer platforms?
My guess is they'll be used to upvote/downvote things that the botnet operators are paid to promote/suppress. SEO for the fediverse basically
Jokes on them, we can't sort by upvotes and downvotes in most cases anyway
SEO and propaganda / misinformation campaigns