You’re looking at 7x14 cellphones per rack and at least 5 racks. So 490 phones. Each of them will have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit and so on installed. A setup like that will give you the power to immediately downvote a Reddit post 500 times or to sell 500 followers on Instagram, boost a TikTok video with 500 views or post 500 comments to YouTube. You can play your YouTube video 500 times and earn money by doing that. Or you could totally kill every Lemmy post critizising the communist party of China by downvoting it 500x and posting 500 negative comments.
And yes, there are thousands of those operations around
Forgive my ignorance, why is there a wall of cellphones?
You’re looking at 7x14 cellphones per rack and at least 5 racks. So 490 phones. Each of them will have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit and so on installed. A setup like that will give you the power to immediately downvote a Reddit post 500 times or to sell 500 followers on Instagram, boost a TikTok video with 500 views or post 500 comments to YouTube. You can play your YouTube video 500 times and earn money by doing that. Or you could totally kill every Lemmy post critizising the communist party of China by downvoting it 500x and posting 500 negative comments.
And yes, there are thousands of those operations around
This is what a bot farm looks like
aka this is who you’re arguing with online.
This is what a lot of Lemmy traffic comes from.
There’s more phones on that rack than active Lemmy accounts
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How is it used? Are they remotely controlled by computer somehow or do they need someone going from phone to phone, putting stuff in manually?
I prefer the Superman version:
https://youtu.be/P7Ceon2WLpA