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(Meta) What's up with the recent influx of posts here and on nostupidquestions asking borderline insane questions as if written by people who have never encountered another human before? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so..