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when I see these posts i always figured it was a kind of bot-net role call. imagine you pay a contractor for one million sock puppets and you want to check how
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
when I see these posts i always figured it was a kind of bot-net role call. imagine you pay a contractor for one million sock puppets and you want to check how many of them aren’t shadowbanned - the bots already follow each other and are programmed to “engage” with posts their bot-friends engage with, so it becomes a follow the leader effect, and allows the purchaser of a botnet to inspect their army, kind of like Obi-Wan getting a tour of the Kaminoan’s clone army after finding the official records were deleted from the archive.
no official list of which accounts are bots == check the size of the network myself, and if a few million retirees get caught up in the net, all the better for camouflage
just a conjecture :)
- h2odragon 5y agoInteresting notion. I've seen people speculating on "WTF are these nonsensical google ads about", perhaps botnet C&C could be an answer there too.