Has anyone else noticed a strong uptick in friend requests from oddly named, single user or few user instances, with account creation dates like 2018 and whatnot, since the beginning of the Trump administration?
Seems very much like they're preparing to astroturf fedi, hard, to me. My guess is that they're going to come in, espousing leftist rhetoric but are going to work in a coordinated effort to shift the Overton Window, and to infiltrate any attempts to organize.
Obviously this kind of thing has always been going on, here - let's be grownups about it, this is a fringe social media network, the feds have been here a long time - but I think the influence of social media giants within the current administration has led to a strong uptick in their focus on poisoning and destroying fedi.
Love you all. Stay safe. Think critically of everything. Do some snooping on domain ownership dates before you believe an account creation dates. WHOIS, etc