If I owned those bot voting sites, this is what I’d do.
“You must do this for me but you must use your own money!!”
I’d die laughing if someone was able to do this on Lemmy and buy something like 3k votes, an unseen number. Or better yet, 30k votes. You’d be on All and see that and know something was up.
Thank goodness we’re too small and unimportant for them to interrupt my Linux and Startrek memes with that nonsense.
Unfortunately, this has happened and is likely still happening on lemmy (mostly for comments and not posts). see here.
I just found out that those pages to buy votes exist, I knew that bots and stuff existed, but I thought it was something more “hidden”, from 4 cents per vote, it doesn’t surprise me that the site is completely going down the toilet
it’s so essy to make a bot too. And reddit is earning loads through the API so they don’t bother to stop it.
You dont even need api for upvote farming
Its like 3 lines of selenium
