• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      6 days ago

      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 bee sob emoji