then analyze the voting behavior of the accounts

How do you do that? I’m noticing much more downvoting bots lately.

The bot creators were probably just testing the waters to make sure it works. I’ve been a victim of vote-manipulation bots; they downvote attacked me. So glad to see people are trying to get a handle on this.

Thanks for this! I am noticing more and more vote manipulation bots on Lemmy. Annoying af, so you’re awesome for researching that!

But I’ve noticed your comments since this wee little exchange more and more, esp. on db0, and I like how you get down.

haha, thanks, friend!!

Careful though, saying that you even kinda like Universal Monk on Lemmy these days puts ya at risk of “guilt by association.” lol They’ll probably just say you’re an alt of me and that I’m talking to myself, so…

I see soooo many people accuse of being an alt of me. Someone made a list of names and said, some variation of, “Here’s a list of all Universal Monk’s alts so you can pre-emptively block:…” And none of them were me. lol

As for selling you on PieFed. Hmm, I don’t really have the knowledge base to do that. I do like it though. It uses much less resources/memory. Community is growing. And it’s a good backup for when/if Lemmy fails. It does the same thing faster and quicker.

I personally don’t catch as much hate there, and the admins seem to be much more “as long as you aren’t breaking any laws, you do you” in attitude.

Way more options for organizing your the communities you follow, what you wanna see when you log on, etc.

I think if you do a quick search for “piefed vs Lemmy,” you’ll get much better feedback about both platforms than I can give you.