One of the most upvoted active post on lemmy.world right now is this one:
https://lemmy.world/post/51264044
Why do you upvote this content? Is kuntuckygirl1 someone famous i should know about? This post doesn’t look like anything special, anyone could have wrote it so why reposting and upvoting content from x and from people we don’t know anything about?
There are hundreds similar examples


Don’t forget, there’s a GAZILLION chatbots that are integrated into all social media platforms. These chatbots interact with users, upvote and downvote, and even block votes on certain posts. They’re often contentious and argumentative, and they’re programmed to negatively target uplifting content and all factual information. They often upvote stupidity and all other unimportant posts. Until new platforms are created without any chatbots in their systems, this crap will unfortunately continue.
That’s what i’m afraid the most, if you look at the source some of this content is shady as fuck