I have been working on Lemvotes, a tool to check who voted on a Lemmy post. In this blog post, I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.
Well on Reddit the answer was straightforward and easy, needing to establish karma on an account to make it seem legit and organic and then either sell it or start using it for the original malicious purposes
I always found the votes in !albumartporn@lemmy.world a bit suspicious. This confirms my suspicion.
Why do people do this?
Well on Reddit the answer was straightforward and easy, needing to establish karma on an account to make it seem legit and organic and then either sell it or start using it for the original malicious purposes
But here on Lemmy? I have absolutely no idea
Bosting a community to top to accelerate the number of followers