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Forgive my ignorance, why is there a wall of cellphones?
This is what a bot farm looks like
aka this is who you’re arguing with online.
This is what a lot of Lemmy traffic comes from.
Do you really believe, that lemmy is big enough for them to care?
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Giving helpful instructions is not among the activities bot farms are involved with.
There's more phones on that rack than active Lemmy accounts
This is the .ml server
I prefer the Superman version:
https://youtu.be/P7Ceon2WLpA
How is it used? Are they remotely controlled by computer somehow or do they need someone going from phone to phone, putting stuff in manually?
Low wage employees go over the boards of phones all day
Things phones and humans have in common in Asia: they're very cheap to procure.
It is sad, and heartbreaking, and true.
How much is a lot in this context?
Stick around long enough and pay attention and you’ll see.
Things relating to: Israel, Gaza, discussions of capitalism, “east” vs “west”, USA imperialism, the Uyghur Genocide, the genocide of the Palestinian people, the cultural revolution, great leap, Soviets, etc
^ suddenly there are a lot more people on Lemmy when these topics come up. Voting is transparent.
I wish we could locally delete votes from specific instances with our clients.
Lemmy is almost designed to be able to be astroturded.
You're looking at 7x14 cellphones per rack and at least 5 racks. So 490 phones. Each of them will have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit and so on installed. A setup like that will give you the power to immediately downvote a Reddit post 500 times or to sell 500 followers on Instagram, boost a TikTok video with 500 views or post 500 comments to YouTube. You can play your YouTube video 500 times and earn money by doing that. Or you could totally kill every Lemmy post critizising the communist party of China by downvoting it 500x and posting 500 negative comments.
And yes, there are thousands of those operations around