It only costs $400 to make an anti-Russia, anti-China #propaganda bot.

#OREALLY

That number approaches $0 when one realises how #tillony works.

#russiaGate #chinaHate #yellowPeril #racism #nazism #xenophobia #botFarms #antiRussia #antiChina

Something worth learning from #China. Entities that are too popular pose a danger.

Look at people that you are thinking of interacting with if they have more than 3000 followers and only been on fedi since #Nov2022 then it is *very* likely they are using or have used #botFarms to game the #ExploreTimeline, for followers.

This #PopularityModel was abuse on #BigSocialMedia. Since #Nov22 its come to #fediverse.

Limit interactions with them especially if they post images a lot.

#smallWeb

Judging by the botFarms on fedi that are setup to hate him, his resistance to #BigPharma and #BigAg, and the fact that he doesn't wish to crush all #soundMoney-bitcoin proponents, we think #RFK is going to be a fair, balanced president for the #USA, who will be able to build a vibrant, new era of #degrowth and #convivialSufficiency.

No more war, no more offshored #bioLabs, a reduced #CIA, and perhaps most importantly, less energy going into these self-righteous #botFarms.

#noMoreWar

Fediverse appears to be replicating the worst elements of #socialMedia now, including enabling and empowering the #botFarms.

It seems to be just replicating the worst elements of the #closedSilo systems, just in a #decentralised way.

We suspect that the way to get to the heart of this issue is to '#followTheMoney'. Where is money pouring into fedi and why? Why has Mastodon not taken long-time software thieves #HellaDoge to task, but jumped on others?

#corruption #moneyPrinterGoDrr #fediMeta

@LionsPhil @nicuveo
When we say #BotFarmTimeline we mean the #ExploreTimeline, of course, designed to favour entities with #botFarms backing them.

Mastodon should also restore their javascript-free interface that was recently dropped.

We really need to see other server types like #Epicyon (named after a type of big wild canine), #GNUSocial, and #FireFish gainmore developer interest.

#makeJavascriptOptional

It's really interesting to see the bots lampoon #JFK.

To cut a long story short #RobertKennedy is not against bitcoin and wants to limit the number of military bases the #USA have around the world for **no** good reason.

When you see the #botFarms go after JFK with their fake, bot followers, just remember that.

The real #nazi's gave rise to actual nazis in #Ukraine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220402105637/https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/

In an era of #spambots and #botfarms, we envisage a new #sport that involves getting the bots to block you.

@emilygorcenski @jack @witchescauldron

We are pretty sure that when they say "#interoperable", they mean with other bots.

Oh, and let's no forget three-letter-agencies.

#botFarms #TLAs

We predicted #MastodonDevs were going to do it years ago, see #PopularityModel to see our intuition in full effect. #intuitivelyCorrectAlmostEverytime #prolific

#botFarms #socialMedia #misInfo #disInfo #exploreTab #exploreTimeline #mastodon #hostileTakeover #diaspora #zhitomirskiy #gased #sanFrancisco #fediverse #fediMeta #moneyPrinterContinues #moneyPrinterGoDrrr

@ParadeGrotesque
We were trying to work out what this has to do with #Mastodon. Then we realised the service is likely being inundated by a #botFarm, and Mastodon encourages #botFarms now with the #ExploreTab.

:p

We think someone is trying to offer a 'friendly' service they should probably be on an I2P instance anyway?

It appears that a lot of new #bots are also making their way to the fediverse.

If you don't wish to be overtaken by #botfarms, now is the time to set your account to "approved followers only" and keep a record of the people you are following, and why.

Don't be caught out.

#birdSite #turdSite #maSTODon

1995: Where do you want to go today?

2025: What are #botFarms telling you to believe, today?

The reason that #climateScientists are so ineffective is they think they need to spend every waking moment on #TurdSite to explain to bots, programmed to pump out disinfo, how #climateScience is real.

Its pretty funny, really — sad funny.

Tobacco industry eat your heart out.

#twITtER #botFarms

@oct2pus
Tell the #memecoiner that a good place for #shitcoins already exists.

Everyone knows that only #bitcoin and monero are valueable, the rest are #memecoins or (mind our language) #shitcoins.

Ppl like MUSK are elevated on TURDSITE because they are helping to distract from the real. Therefore one can reliably inform the #turdCoiner to hurry along to #turdSite, as #botFarms are ready and waiting for all their shilling needs.

@witchescauldron @meena

@Gargron @dibi58 @wilkie @t54r4n1
2/2

So it is very interesting, maybe the situation is different in your countries.

We are interested to know who these people *believe* they are reaching and why we are conditioned to believe growth in reach is always needed. Emphasis on the 'believe'.

Maybe there is a reason we have not been able to attain #convivialSufficiency, as an alleged civil society, yet.

#botFarms #inequality #BGP #DNS #legacyPlatforms #socialPlatforms #reach

@dmoonfire

Hi Joel,

We think this quote by you was most salient, validating suspicions expressed on Fedi almost a year ago that #Mastodon is being coopted to serve the #PopularityModel and #influencers with access to #botFarms:

> the "spirit of mastodon" is also to not show boosts and favorites until a toot is fully opened to discourage mob mentality and such, and yet the official app has those... It looks like a Twitter client

It ought to be fixed, asap.

#perverseIncentives

@josias @joel

All this time, the #AUKCANZUS bots have been pushing anti-Russia talking points? If it weren't for the projecting we'd never have guessed.

If we're going to muddle through a medley of #RussiaGate tropes, why not fast-forward to fever-pitched rumors of #BidensPooPooTapes… or not.

At least that would be believeable, though.

#projection #botFarms #bots