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Red-State Secession's avatar

X dot com now allows people to create 10 accounts per phone number. So people create a zero followers count, in addition to their main account, for shitposting (demoralizing) people they're afraid of, to avoid blowback. Their main account might be in their real name.

Kulak's avatar

Huh. I did not realize this. That's an insanely large number. Like I have 2 one for CatGirl Kulak, and one for anarchonomicon.

Also it's just basically asking for botting, since you only need 1 sim per 10 accounts.

Red-State Secession's avatar

The opportunity for our side and their side is to make sock accounts that pretend to be the other side to gain trust, and then DM people from the sock account to extract secrets from them.

shorterboy's avatar

they have been doing this with politics for decades, "there is no reason to vote because it changes nothing" so stay home and move on, no one outside the actual right tells you to organise and get the people you really want to be elected on a ballot or to have real "grass roots" agitation.

It's really a "sun tzu" thing, the easiest way to win is to make sure no one else turns up and they have been doing this for decades in politics both to candidates and voters it's why politics looks the way it does.

Useless Eater's avatar

I'm not a bot (yet). In another 20 or 30 years there's a good chance I will be. But you won't know the difference then and you can't know the difference now. So I will post some wrongthink to prove my bona fides: All wogs must go back to their shitholes.

An AI regimebot wouldn't post that. Hello fellow human (Sorry I can't be 100% on that but confidence is high). But then consider: on a platform such as reddit, where no wrongthink is permitted, the content could be overwhelmingly AI regimebot. Because there is functionally no difference between that and the npc. The very instant the Current Thing happens, there are hundreds of thousands of "comments," voicing approved "outrage." Instantly. On demand. Throw in a few other platforms and we're in the millions. Instantly. All those "data" centers aren't being built merely to store "data." Although they will do that too. I say all that just to say: your engagement with bots could be, I suspect is, far greater than you might suspect. Even if you suspect a lot.

Love your essays. Haven't commented frequently. The recent one on violence was a banger. Just like that other on violence a while back was. I quote it. In meatspace.

Mohd. Saifullah bin Majid's avatar

Congratulations! Looks like you're on their radar. That means they've taken your messages seriously. If the bots failed to demoralize you and your followers, they'll start to assassinate your character. If that fails as well, they'll start to hunt you down to hurt you physically. Make sure you already have a contingency for that. Good hunting and have fun, Catgirl!

DWB's avatar

Everyone I follow on X has been called a fed, and sometimes they get in fights with each other, making the case that other person is a fed. Sometimes I think all of X is an intelligence operation.

Mohd. Saifullah bin Majid's avatar

The entire social media is an intel ops

Mitch's avatar

I never really believed that Canada was real, until I went there. It always seemed to be the home of losers' fake girlfriends and people that were reportedly always nice. Well I finally went and discovered it was indeed real and moreover possessed much natural beauty. But somehow, it was still a disappointment. So boring. And it doesn't get dark until like 10:30 pm in the summer which messes up your sleep cycle. Plus, the people are a bunch of hosers.