Very valid point. I recall some threads on voat archive or xyz right after voat went down where they figured out they were trying to influence control the spots we hang out in, as well as bringing IRC chats, one of the last hold outs, into the mainstream to flood that source and inject their policy there.
I even explored some of the sites and people which “owned” voat
Imperial (weird name? Evil empire? >
Tower of Chat (TOC) was like a tower of links you would click which would bring you to a web based IRC browser (“Lets Toc” “Let’s Talk”) > Gardeon was another one (Adam Eve Garden?)
They had a lot of writings on crypto and other select tech topics.
I think what you describe is EXACTLY on the head. Advanced bots have likely been used to control discuss and gather intel for decades, we are just seeing it publicaly coming out now.
Very valid point. I recall some threads on voat archive or xyz right after voat went down where they figured out they were trying to influence control the spots we hang out in, as well as bringing IRC chats, one of the last hold outs, into the mainstream to flood that source and inject their policy there.
I even explored some of the sites and people which “owned” voat
Imperial (weird name? Evil empire? >
Tower of Chat (TOC) was like a tower of links you would click which would bring you to a web based IRC browser (“Lets Toc” “Let’s Talk”) > Gardeon was another one (Adam Eve Garden?)
They had a lot of writings on crypto and other select tech topics.
I think what you describe is EXACTLY on the head. Advanced bots have likely been used to control discuss and gather intel for decades, we are just seeing it publicaly coming out now.