Why bother with bots when the people from hexbear will do it for free?

That's the portion of the user base that didn't leave reddit voluntarily.

This comes as no surprise really. I noticed a marked increase in right wing insanity after Elon took over.

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Looks like jlai.lu enjoys federating with hexbear

You were dumb enough to walk into a lemmy.ml political post without knowing the background of lemmy.ml

"you people"

You mean the ones from hexbear aka lemmygrad-lite?

It's a chicken and egg problem, their high popularity makes them a ddos target