I heard about this theory a long time back and actually really liked it. It's been around a while, nowadays there are so many faceless channels pumping out content on TikTok and other video platforms, written, edited, performed and uploaded by bots, essentially everything is automated these days, then in the comments there is fake engagement by bots to have the video pushed.
Bot farms, though, are interesting and are where the theory started, I think. Some bot tweets some rage bait, other bots comment on it, and along with them, real people get involved, and there is some major engagement going on that pushes the thread and more people get involved. Fake stories on Reddit, too. Some people think it's to farm karma, but there are more nefarious things at play with some of those.
Also, it's good that those bots were nuked here. I wouldn't want to see that infection on Hive. But, we do kind of have it in the form of blatant comment spammers who post a silly amount of comments per day for reasons beyond me. It's easy to spot, and I usually ignore them.
There are comment farmers here, humans, mostly fishing for vote, others probably honest just looking for engagement.
I like to keep this space as immune to the madness of twitter as possible. Twitter, by the way, is not going to last long, at least that is my prediction.
To be honest, I made my first Twitter account when I joined here because there was some promoting Hive thing going on.
When I go on there, I either see ads, thirst traps, crypto stuff, or depressing crap going on around the world, so I avoid it like the plague.
That promoting hive on Twitter clearly didn't work :)
To be fair, promoting Hive anywhere outside of Hive hasn't worked haha
Well, LOL!
What can I say, I can't disagree! LOL
Shame on us.