The community is only 13 days old. Frequently I see post on all from either the mod or new accounts all ranting about bch or related sites and they’re all super excited to tell you about it. I mean look at the pinned post and replies for goodness sake.
All new accounts. All just loving bch so much and super excited to tell you about it. A lot of the posts have strikingly similar formats too. Like bold sub-title paragraph of text and repeat. Reeks of botting/astroturfing. Just me or nah? Im going to post again regarding lemmy being cool with bots auto posting links to off site frequently, but that’s a rant for another day.
Literally every crypto community on every platform is 99% bots.
There’s been a couple of replies saying this. The point of the post was to make sure and raise awareness. Appreciate the input either way.
Obviously it is. Just block it. I guess most if not all current lemmy users are smart enough to not invest into crypto.
Edit: to seriously invest into crypto
I guess most if not all current lemmy users are smart enough to not invest into crypto.
I mean, I’ll admit, I have a couple hundred bucks I threw at some alt coins that has fluctuated in value quite a bit… but its as more of a “fuck it” experiment instead of “The Next Coming of Econonomic JesusThat Will Make You Unfathomably Rich” like these fuckheads prattle about.
Yes I have like $50 I think but it’s honestly just gambling. I’m prepared to lose that money.
I wonder if the target of these bot communities is not Lemmy users, but rather to be slurped up by AI scrapers in the hope of influencing future models.
I thought that was just a scam bot community in general just because I don’t trust cryptocurrency communities in general, so I guess so.
Edit:
Looked at the images and most of the usernames in the first image look like they’re randomly generated rather than organic usernames, which to me screams bot accounts.
Even by crypto standards, Bitcoin Cash is dodgy. Its origins were a temporary hiccup in the Bitcoin network which forked the blockchain into two branches. As blockchains are designed to tolerate this, the network quickly decided that one branch was worse than the other, so everything switched to the good branch and Bitcoin continued chugging away and consuming enough power for a small country. However, a few people were cross about this because they had more Bitcoin on the dead branch, so manually configured their wallets and mining hardware to use that branch, and tried encouraging other people to do the same. That didn’t work. They then decided to provide a preconfigured wallet and mining software that would prefer the dead branch but claimed it was its own new cryptocurrency and everyone who had Bitcoin already would get some of the new one for free, and that was enough to get some people to sign up.
To be fair Bitcoin had, and still has, the problem that Bitcoin Cash solved, and it’s a ridiculous problem that shouldn’t exist, created by an artificial limit that was put in place to avoid an attack when Bitcoin was extremely cheap. But because the people behind Bitcoin core were so adamant against it they now can’t turn back and implement the same fix that the people behind Bitcoin Cash were proposing.
Bitcoin died as a currency back in 2017 because of it, it’s still an investment and a proof of concept, but it will never be a currency again.
It does look fishy.
The same people who love crypto love AI. It’s all lazy people looking to make a quick buck by lying to and manipulating others.
Some of those might even be real. Telling the difference between a bot and an altcoin fanatic is the hardest turing test.
Anything involving crypto is an invitation to scammers.
To play devil’s advocate, the instance itself appears to be created around 15 days ago (~3 or 4 Jan 2025), so most local accounts will be less than that age, and no one would sign up on that instance if they weren’t enthused about cryptocurrency.
Chances are it is a solo/small bot operation, but without context I can’t rule out that perhaps a community from somewhere else could have migrated. Either way if it becomes too obnoxious, the instance can be blocked client side or de-federated.
This probably explains the post I saw last night about Roger Ver. I was wondering how a post about a Bitcoin cash shill hit my All feed.
I love the idea of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is a genius innovation. Bitcoin cash on the other hand is garbage. It’s a case of people who simply need to move the fuck on… It’s a dead fork, there’s nothing there. The real Bitcoin is over this way and there’s absolutely no reason to be holding onto that shit.
It’s a dead fork, there’s nothing there.
Damn I hadn’t checked in a long time. Only 18th among cryptocurrencies by market cap now.
Am I the only one that fucking hates anyone who asks “am I the only one”?
Idiotic way to start a question and always just ends my give a shit for whatever was being asked. Its up there with people saying “umm” or “like” too much to where I stop listening.
No. You aren’t the only one for anything. Everyone has thought of and noticed everything. You just aren’t seeing [insert anything] talked about enough in your tight little echo chamber algorithm.
Try “who else has noticed…” or “I found this interesting…”
It’s a pretty common title starter and given I wasn’t certain it felt appropriate. It’s more soliciting the opinions of others rather than literally asking if someone is the only person to work something out. Not really worth getting worked up about in my opinion.
just saying what we’re all thinking
