People noticed that all posts to TenForward were being lifted in full (including anything the poster wrote in the post body) to the dbzero risa community. Every post is showing up after an hour or two.
The gumgum account that is doing it is one of a handful of accounts that are botting various communities in the same way. The accounts are not labeled as bots, and they are not using the crosspost function, which makes it seem like the intent is to artificially create activity in these communities without transparency to the users that these posts are coming from elsewhere on Lemmy.
I’ve received messages from posts I’ve made (not on tenforward) where the person realized they were replying to questions by “me” that were just reposted by the bot. It’s pretty lame.
That was all easy to see … the question is … why? … many different people across many different communities are able to do that and they probably do without us knowing.
The question is why this individual or group are doing this now.
And I temper that with the message that I don’t want to put anyone in a corner, I’m just curious as to what is happening because I think many people are thinking the same thing. You guys do great work and I have a lot of fun here … I just get worried when stuff like this happens because it might be a sign that other things are happening.
There was some fediverse drama a little while ago about when/if defederation is justified, which resulted in some infighting and strong opinions. This is almost certainly someone with an axe to grind against .world following that.
People noticed that all posts to TenForward were being lifted in full (including anything the poster wrote in the post body) to the dbzero risa community. Every post is showing up after an hour or two.
The gumgum account that is doing it is one of a handful of accounts that are botting various communities in the same way. The accounts are not labeled as bots, and they are not using the crosspost function, which makes it seem like the intent is to artificially create activity in these communities without transparency to the users that these posts are coming from elsewhere on Lemmy.
I’ve received messages from posts I’ve made (not on tenforward) where the person realized they were replying to questions by “me” that were just reposted by the bot. It’s pretty lame.
That was all easy to see … the question is … why? … many different people across many different communities are able to do that and they probably do without us knowing.
The question is why this individual or group are doing this now.
And I temper that with the message that I don’t want to put anyone in a corner, I’m just curious as to what is happening because I think many people are thinking the same thing. You guys do great work and I have a lot of fun here … I just get worried when stuff like this happens because it might be a sign that other things are happening.
There was some fediverse drama a little while ago about when/if defederation is justified, which resulted in some infighting and strong opinions. This is almost certainly someone with an axe to grind against .world following that.