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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This article is relying on anecdotal evidence citing only a few random Reddit and Bluesky posts and some of the claims in the article are not backed by any evidence. Also note that the Reddit links I clicked on are all heavily downvoted.

Denise is a person that's been long involved in trust and safety analyzed a lot of the Gaza accounts and found that https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3lpxyoe4efk26 only 18% of Gazans were actually posting in Gaza time. Of course she didn't publish hard data so this claim isn't 100% scientific either but the poster is pretty reputable I feel.

Note later as a counterargument to this I did find one person who claimed they have a 4 AM morning prayer. I don't know how many Gazans take part in that. https://bsky.app/profile/anothersmd.bsky.social/post/3lpyetkltys2y I did verify that some websites say they have a prayer at around 4 AM.

Also if you've ever used Bluesky before it used to be that you'd get random replies and mentions asking for money, recently they've gotten this much better under control.

So I think what is really happening is people post unsolicited requests for money on posts that are unrelated and they get correctly marked as spam.