Reddit has so many bots, formulaic comments, and clear patterns (reposts, call-and-response, joke chains, & copypasta), that it seems useful to farm Lemmy for more unique comments performing well to steal.
I could see value of someone farming these comments because there’s far less of all that and people are actually creative much of the time. I don’t know if this would be more trouble than it’s worth, but got to wondering.
Is anyone doing this? Farming Lemmy for, especially, comments to post on Reddit to make themselves seem more authentic?
Do you know of this is plausible, or have you actually seen it happen?
Just to be very clear, I don’t want to do this. I abandoned all my other accounts during the Great Enshittification. But there are a few bot accounts that post a lot here, across several instances, focussing on reposting from Reddit and elsewhere. Is that what they’re trying to do?
I think you’ve asked the “wrong” question because you included the specific source of “Lemmy” and a specific intent of “to make themselves seem more authentic”.
If I throw those parts of the questions away, then: Yes, people are doing it; Yes, it’s plausible; Yes, I’ve seen it happen. I’m absolutely certain because I’m part of a team that’s been doing it for almost a decade.