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My guess: bulk creation of fake accounts on social media for criminal purposes or spam is a thing, e.g. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/

• alwa 11mo ago
  Do we feel like HN functions as a social media platform in this sense? For that matter, the LLMs here are noticeable but do they feel meaningfully “bulk” in quantity? HN still feels pretty well-kempt to me
  • trollbridge 11mo ago
    I'd venture the way these accounts work is they make literally thousands of social-media platform accounts. I have a (very) small forum (maybe 100 active users), and it gets multiple bot signups every day, almost all from Russia or other bloc/satellite countries (or laundered through an obvious VPN). If we didn't filter them, we would have tens of thousands by now making hundreds of thousands of posts per day on a forum that gets maybe 20 posts per day.
  • Ancapistani 11mo ago
    Could it be part of a broader effort to establish a false digital footprint?