Because you’re thinking about it wrong. With a bigger population it’ll cost more to influence them. If you ever watched how they did it in 2016, they started small, always. The first sub Reddit’s to see lots of opinion shifts where small subs like local interest before they moved on to the larger metropolitan ones. If you’re paying to influence people then you need a chain of initiation to start. This makes Lemmy a much greater target than Reddit. Look at opinions on AI. Lemmy was full on sharing multiple daily headlines like “AI is coming for your daughter’s” while Reddit thought it was just a neat tool.
The goal is 10%
You need to create enough bots to maintain 10% of the content is favoring your view. If you can sustain that then opinions begin to shift for the entire group. People will start to join and create their own. That 10% is much easier to achieve in smaller places. Lemmy is perfect for it










Yea sure. Nothing wrong with that. Government also provides social assistance, mental health support and outreach programs. The city I live in has a downtown that is destroyed by the homeless. The people trying to run their business have lost their livelihoods because the homeless hang out in the streets smoking crack and begging people for money. Nobody wants to bring their family downtown because of the drug use and drug users stumbling around at 3pm. Being a leftist and wanting to help the homeless shouldn’t mean we ignore the other people in society or the impact that homelessness has on everyone. I’m tired of having to accept drug use next to high schools just because people treat the homeless like lost kittens on the left. They’re real people. They make their choices. They deserve help but that doesn’t also mean we treat them like they don’t have autonomy or abilities of their own to not use drugs in areas where kids or businesses are trying to operate.