Lately, I’ve recognized many posts from very new accounts here, usually younger than a day. They post a couple of news articles and are never to be seen again.
I’ve checked this communitiy’s modlog and many new accounts get banned relatively quickly. Their behaviour is eerily similar, even their profile pictures have similar styles, so it seems to be the same origin.
Out of curiosity, is there some lore I missed?
More seriously, I think we users in this community maybe should be more conscious about this and stop interacting with posts from these profiles.
Dunno if my post makes any sense, it’s just something weird I noticed and wanted to say something about.
Are the news articles paywalled/ad supported/propagandistic?
Perhaps someone just trying to get more views to those sites?
Then why does has the person abandoned dozens of accounts for the past few months instead of consistently posting on the same account?
It has been an issue since at least two months ago first starting on lemmy.world
Because they know they are being disingenuous and jump to another account before someone takes an action against that account.
Not sure but maybe chaos and confusion is one of their ban evading tactic.
Might even be just multiple people getting paid a bit, by said news sites.
Maybe it is turning out to be cheaper for the news site owners than ads on Google etc.