It started out pretty chill. Initially I found a few alts of RustyShackleford that upvotes every comment he makes
But what’s this, there are other names on there which appear over and over too. Buttholespiders and oberonswanson feature often… Let’s see who upvotes their comments, in completely different communities:
Let’s do Oberon first.
Here’s a comment in an Apple community:
and an ADHD community
and in a community about Opossums
Bit of a pattern forming here, isn’t there.
Buttholespiders doesn’t comment, only votes. Suspicious.
We can see TheGoldenGod and WYLD_STALLIONS voting in this group at the same times, too. Let’s look at votes on their comments:
In a star trek community:
anarchy comm:
asklemmy:
technology:
ok last one, let’s do wyld_stallions
196, meme community:
a comment in Fuck AI:
ask lemmy:
This looks a lot like a coordinated network of accounts which systematically upvote each other’s comments, within minutes of each other, regardless of the topic or content of the comment.