Something reddit 'best of' was shown to me as proof the open the nation is astroturf/the russians. To proceed I used ceddit to observe the live happening on reddit. This is useful when you don't want to archive a moving target every 10 seconds. A little backstory of ceddit - this tool has been in use for a while to see user posts that were censored provided the hidden/deleted posts were not removed too quickly before archiving.

Note: if someone wants to point out that ceddit is a bad tool for this please post the risks and hopefully a better one. My feelings will not be hurt.

(the URI is formatted so you can't accidentally click on it)

h[t][t]ps[:][/][/]www . reddit . com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_cannot_believe_that_people_are/fnstpyl/

Replace the host name string reddit in the URI with ceddit:

https://www.ceddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_cannot_believe_that_people_are/fnstpyl/

Note the indicators being used to determine that this is astroturfing. It's interesting to me that authoritarian leftist organizing is natural but an exercise of the 1st amendment after risk analysis is the russians or whatever excuse is popular.