Done with Twitter and Reddit

Fediverse@lemmy.world – 1883 points – 1 years ago

I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

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Whom do they sell the account to? How does the purchaser benefit from the account? I'm sure these are probably basic questions. I'm just curious

Dodgy organizations who want to pose as regular people and spread propaganda/disinformation/guerrilla advertising. Here's one forum I found which has reddit accounts for sale. There would be more on the "dark web" I imagine:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/social-media.200/

Wow. I've heard about this kind of thing before but haven't actually dug to go and find it