I wonder if he meant ol’ Ben Kenobi
Same. There’s a few that I can tolerate for 20 minutes a day. It’s more about the niche subs that benefit from a wide range of people that have collected over the years. I love Lemmy, but even the large communities are a niche in a niche.
It’s been happening for a few months, my theory was that in the runup to the election it was their only idea for CYA about bots, and it just so happens to mean they’re using facial recognition scanning to catalog the real humans on their platform.
But it has to be something from the inside by a Russian, and he’s not naive to that fact.