A bot post’s a picture to “super cool t-shirt my friend/co-worker/sibling was wearing”, then other bot comments asking for a link to the super cool t-shirt, then original bot (or yet another bot) comments the link to the site. It’s basically an advertisement, but with extra steps to make it more natural; AKA, social engineering and they are scumbags that see all somewhat popular online spaces as a place to shove their advertisements into.
The tee shirt bots have gotten to Lemmy.
Tee shirt bots?
A bot post’s a picture to “super cool t-shirt my friend/co-worker/sibling was wearing”, then other bot comments asking for a link to the super cool t-shirt, then original bot (or yet another bot) comments the link to the site. It’s basically an advertisement, but with extra steps to make it more natural; AKA, social engineering and they are scumbags that see all somewhat popular online spaces as a place to shove their advertisements into.
It sooo looks like this, but the poster is a an actual Beehaw user though, not a bot. I don’t know what to think