It’s big business. Pretty much every social network got its start with bots, major creators and influencers used artificial engagement to get their start, websites use tons of artificial traffic to rank higher on search results.
The other tactic is using a traditional bot net aka a hacker infects as many machines as possible essentially just to use them as a click farm.
It’s a whole grey or black market.
You use a board farm like This. Each has its own IP address and if need be you set up a static IP for them over VPN.
Everything? Probably not. The important stuff like major subs pertaining to news, politics, religion, and specific culture topics? Most definitely. I doubt r/dragonsfuckingcars is deep state reddit propaganda.
While you’re at it stop paying for everything. Just take stuff and help in the same way.
Who says I have any money whatsoever in the market or crypto? I prefer real world value, like food production, building materials, electricity generation, drinking water and so on.
Conceptually crypto is useful as an alternative form of currency. The gains it has had was pretty much a massive pump and dump aka no different than someone with enough assets in the market buying a bunch of cheap stocks, finding a way to convince others to buy and then dumping at or near the peak.
Most CEOs are in one way or another.
Gawd damn, you’re right
The Hannah Montana pantheon, you know the true God’s of this reality we all worship less we be sent to detention for eternity.
As God intended.
I’ve done industrial networking protocols but never Bluetooth. I’m guessing some equipment didn’t implement the standard correctly or fully. Typically there’s someone you gotta pay like $10k+ to verify your equipment meets the standard so you can put the logo on the box but I’m sure the headphone or whatever device has pawned that responsibility off to whoever they bought their Bluetooth chip from.
Still going. Now I’m intrigued.
I wonder how long this will go on.
How do you feel about echo chambers and just talking to people who already agree with you on everything?
No (◠‿◕), let’s learn to embrace our differences and love one another. No need for Lemmy to be just another echo chamber on the web. There’s already enough of those.
That’s good and all unless you’re talking about cancer, you see context is everything.
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anyone who doesn’t immediately agree is scary. I get it.
Its sarcasm, I guess I could have added the /s for clarity. I mean yeah you’re being reasonable but I’ve definitely been downvoted around some parts of Lemmy for not being fervently in agreement (not even technically in disagreement). Some parts around here get pretty kooky and cultish, particularly revolving around some countries and political ideologies, and AI but to a degree that’s always expected online.