I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.
I think the questions are from bots, testing topics to farm controversy or outrage points. The greater the number of replies, the more likely the topic will be used in a future marketing or agit-prop campaign.
So you get these really stupid, controversial, psychopathic takes that no one should be taking seriously. The point of the exercise is the emotional reaction, the outrage, not getting a serious answer.
I don’t know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.
Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so…
Good point
Are you by any chance referring to the user who posted stuff like this? (Not from NSQ but they did post there.)
omg, that whole comment thread is just so incredibly wholesome. i’m a weirdo too, btw, in case anybody wants to be friends 🤗
Hello, fellow weirdo!
