

It’s even worse on Lemmy because there are fewer users and the amount of data which can be gotten from things like vote data is super valuable.
I am pretty convinced that a non-trivial portion of .ml users are information warfare trainees who get trained on Lemmy before being moved over the Facebook and reddit.
We saw a massive, concerted “don’t vote, bot sides are the same” effort in Lemmy. It was incredibly obvious and shocking that some people still deny it.