Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They might not be real supporters. They are probably shill accounts forum sliding and doing the same things to control consensus they have done everywhere else.

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      1 year ago

      This is so true. I wish there was a will/way to eliminate bots altogether on a platform. The more popular a platform is, the more bots swarm in to sway the opinions of the crowd - political opinions, consumer opinions, you name it. Reddit was lousy with bots. Constant ceaseless opinion farming. What’s to stop Lemmy from becoming just as obnoxious?