There actually is a group of accounts on voat that do nothing but post a very specific type of news.
They caught my attention last year and started sticking out like a sore thumb.
Initially I was just curious, then I started noticing a trend. They were heavily pushing a narrative with their dozen sick puppet accounts.
Personally, I hold them somewhat responsible for the shift from normal aggregator to full on news clusterfuck. When new users join and see most of the front page is highly upvoted clickbait hate articles. They assume that is the norm and the thing to do.
For awhile I tried calling them out and posting a list of their accounts. But no one seemed to care because it all flowed well with the circle jerk.
There actually is a group of accounts on voat that do nothing but post a very specific type of news.
They caught my attention last year and started sticking out like a sore thumb.
Initially I was just curious, then I started noticing a trend. They were heavily pushing a narrative with their dozen sick puppet accounts.
Personally, I hold them somewhat responsible for the shift from normal aggregator to full on news clusterfuck. When new users join and see most of the front page is highly upvoted clickbait hate articles. They assume that is the norm and the thing to do.
For awhile I tried calling them out and posting a list of their accounts. But no one seemed to care because it all flowed well with the circle jerk.
I agree entirely.
Thing is, even if there are shills (which I doubt), who cares? I mean really, what are you gonna do? The only thing that ever comes of it is brigading and witchhunts.