If I would be fresh out of Moscow uni, with an IT degree, and Putin would order me to influence voters in the western world, I would pronto create a piece of software that could just do that. So yes, and it is probably being done already; keep healthy skepticism when you’re online.
Even if you are fresh out of uni, you would know what a target group is, and that lemmy users are a rather small one, that does not give you success regarding your goal of influencing many.
If I would be fresh out of Moscow uni, with an IT degree, and Putin would order me to influence voters in the western world, I would pronto create a piece of software that could just do that. So yes, and it is probably being done already; keep healthy skepticism when you’re online.
Even if you are fresh out of uni, you would know what a target group is, and that lemmy users are a rather small one, that does not give you success regarding your goal of influencing many.
Lemmy is just one small piece of the puzzle. That shit would be installed everywhere.
But unlike reddit, your ability to radicalize people is much higher. At least in public forums.
I think there is a radicaliztion pipeline, but the subs are mostly used to recruit then go to another site with laxer rules.
There are dozens of us!