Jerry 🦙💝🦙May 20, 2023
Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “
Show threadCrazyMyra
@jerry Already happening, according to my sources. Who're reasonably knowledgeable, considering they run a few million bots on Twitter.
May 20, 2023 at 7:10pmWeb
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙May 20, 2023
@OutOnTheMoors it’s actually hard to imagine that it isn’t already happening.
Show threadCrazyMyraMay 20, 2023
@jerry Currently mainly being used in romance and catfish scams on Twitter. The fedi crypto DMs are just "pentesting", for want of a better description.
They're trying to figure out how to onboard to multiple instances in numbers.
Show threadCDunnMay 29, 2023

@OutOnTheMoors @jerry

Note the last several days of growth for daystorm.netz.org:

https://botsin.space/@mastodon_daily_active_users/110452632579866623

Mastodon Daily Active Users (@[email protected])

Daily Top Server Growth daystorm.netz.org: 6.44% (47000) metapixl.com: 4.05% (126) pravda.me: 3.22% (2770) freemasonry.social: 2.07% (30) aethy.com: 1.85% (62) kids.0px.io: 0.39% (139) masto.nu: 0.22% (44) data collected from: https://instances.social/

botsin.space
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙May 29, 2023
@CDunnPasadena @OutOnTheMoors I assumed that was a sketchy admin publishing fake user counts. Scary if it is indeed bots
Show threadCrazyMyraMay 29, 2023
@jerry @CDunnPasadena Apparently, it's a research project simulating a bot attack on another instance in the same domain (both owned by the researcher). Harmless - unless it gets out of the lab - I guess.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙May 29, 2023
@OutOnTheMoors @CDunnPasadena ahhh - thanks for that
Show threadCDunnMay 29, 2023
@jerry @OutOnTheMoors
That’s interesting. Kind of an unfortunate choice of name, though. “Daystorm” sounds a lot like “daily stormer” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer). Why would they choose a name like that?
The Daily Stormer - Wikipedia

Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙May 29, 2023
@CDunnPasadena @OutOnTheMoors I assume it is a play on Daystrom, the sketchy Star Trek advanced research station
Show threadCrazyMyraMay 29, 2023
@CDunnPasadena @jerry Dunno. I'm trying not to go Chicken Little on this and just keep an eye on it 😂
Show threadAdamMay 26, 2023

@OutOnTheMoors @jerry

> they run few million bots on Twitter

Oh! Thank GOD!! I thought our entire nation had become dumber than a toilet brush, but maybe the posts I was seeing were just dumb bots!!

I still don't understand how they are out there voting and attending political rallies, though.

Show threadCrazyMyraMay 26, 2023
@TwentyYearTexan @jerry The bots are commercial, not political. They're like trucking companies, taking a load of beer one way, taking a load of canned goods back. They're an effective distribution method - nothing more.