This is the main issue here. This whole narrative sprung from one comment in one thread that was made without any real evidence other than 'this account is obviously a bot'. Did the admin do it? Maybe. Did someone else do it? Maybe. On one hand, we know that everyone on the internet is a good honest person and if anyone is trolling it could only be the self-serving admin and absolutely no one else would ever try to troll people on reddit, on the other hand the site is run by and full of a bunch of absolutely assholes. So really it could go either way.
I've always had problems with mob justice, bandwagons, etc. though, and don't go in for witchhunts and claims made without any real evidence to back them up.
Ah you know what it was.. this morning I woke up to a front page of 'OMG Lemmy.world' so I turned off federation so I could actually see something to read. haha.
Reddit seems to be scrambling behind the scenes to try and limit the effects of the migration. Damage control: ChatGPT bots are spamming pro-admin, astroturfed comments (i.imgur.com)
Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol....
I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one (fledd.it)
You can't sign up directly on https://fledd.it/m/worldnews as registration is not enabled....
I definitely think r/gaming has the biggest banger of a privated notice (media.kbin.social)