Me as an instance admin sitting here reading about how Lemmy doesn’t have trolls and Russian bots, while I’m in a chat with other instance admins and mods where we need to actively coordinate to fight the trolls and Russian bots 😐
Yeah… OP is blind to the massive Kremlin and CCP propaganda problem here in the Fediverse.
After hexbear got defederated from most of the major instances, the fucking losers just make alts on different instances so they can continue defending that propaganda filled shithole. Now .ml seems like the new worst, no matter what you do these no-life losers will find a way to spread their bullshit.
Takes much more effort to try and stop them than it does for these losers to make alts unfortunately.
They’re not just some losers sitting on their mom’s basements, they’re paid or programmed to spread disinformation and division.
By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
I was under the impression that the .ml admins actually promote them because it’s run by people from Hexbear.
It’s a bit more mask on, and there’s a few legit communities there, as opposed to Hexbear where the entire instance has a stated goal.
But it’s pretty bad.
Somewhere in Moscow, there’s a big red phone that connects to its counterpart in Beijing, where Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discuss the latest attempts to influence an indie reddit spin-off with an elaborate network of Markov Chain LLMs producing comments like “I wish y’all wouldn’t be so nakedly racist towards people from other countries.”
Are you denying these operations happen?
Am I denying the existence of a branch of international foreign intelligence dedicated specifically to Lemmy.world?
Yes. 100%. Absolutely.
It’s pure paranoia.
Thank you for your service! (sounds sarcastic, is not)
I haven’t seen much of it at all in my 1+ year here, so y’all are doing a great job :3
Oh, hey Dave. Small world huh?
👋
Welcome to IT. If everything is on fire, they ask why you’re even here, and if everything is ready for the fire and there’s nothing left to do, they also ask why you’re even here
The matrix admin group or a different one?
The matrix one
Thank you for your service
I’m yet to see any in the last year personally, so I guess it’s working?
That’s honestly pretty amazing that you’ve been here a year and haven’t seen a troll! Though you’re on an instance with a very active and determined admin, there is definitely a difference in how much you see between instances because of how removals work.
picking the right instance seems to be half the battle for users
You guys are pretty proactive about blocking and defederating bad faith instances, or even ones not doing enough to deal with bad actors. You were one of the first to defederate Hexbear, and I think you even defederated world at one point?
Hexbear defederated blahaj.zone, actually.
The fuck is a chaser?
Here’s a good reddit thread over on r/asktransgender.
Chasers are dangerous to the trans community and turn people into fetish objects, rather than recognizing them as people. It ignores the desires of trans individuals who wish to be seen as the gender they identify with and explicitly chases trans individuals for their being trans.
Ie, a transwoman is pursued for being a transwoman and not for being a woman.
Hey that was me back when I had a kbin account. I’m the account in the screenshot.
That was a direct response to someone asking if I would have sex with a trans man. I got accused of being a chaser for saying “sure, I guess, pre-transition” (the first part) and being a transphobe for saying “but I’m not sexually attracted to dicks” (the second part). Note those two accusations are more or less mutually exclusive, but it doesn’t matter because they’re both deeply, incredibly stupid accusations. The mods and admins of blahaj pointed out how incredibly stupid the accusations were, and some people didn’t like being called stupid, so they went back to hexbear. And continued to be stupid.
To use an analogy, imagine you’re fat and trying to lose weight. Someone admits they are attracted to you, “sure, as long as you’re still fat”. Can you see how this would not be a good basis for a healthy relationship? You could even say it is a sign of a “chubby chaser”. Likewise for transness.
Also, people are overly sensitive because being denied full/legitimate relationships is a frequent pain point for trans people (esp trans women). The classic trope is the boyfriend who will take you on dates but refuse to introduce you to his friends/relatives.
To be clear, being a chaser is transphobic.
A chaser is someone who fetishizes and objectifies trans people.
Just need to swap SatansMaggotyCumFart with Jimmydoreisalefty.
@[email protected] is simply irreverent; not a troll.
I like Jimmy’s contributions. :-/
Ok, so I’m not the only one who noticed that their spam has a weird taste to it. It’s got that vibe of some agreeable left-wing content but then feels likes it only there to mask authoritarian narrative building.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. That account is truly bizarre (from the point of view of how they write and express themselves). I’ve engaged with them a few times and it’s like a weird loop. I know it’s a real person, but it feels like talking to a script or dialog tree because it always goes down the same 1-2 dialog paths
I think it’s a bot assisted human. The amount of spam they output is inhuman but they do interact like a human at times.
Damn I forgot about dore is a lefty!
He definitely is not. He’s a grifter that parrots a lot of right wing nut job conspiracy theories like anti-vaxxing. He’s a Liberal at most.
There is a user named JimmyDoreIsALefty who constantly posts bait and argues in the comments of it.
I need to figure out what irreverent means so I know if I should be insulted.
Trust me - it’s better than some fucking herb…
It’s liberal for deeply unserious I think
Liberal or not I think we can all agree more unseriousness is needed on Lemmy.
The top voted comment on a shitposting post amounts to a “WELl aCTcTUAtLY” for X’s sake.
Well, actually, “well actually” comments under shitposts usually add ironic value and aren’t too serious, at least most of what I’ve seen
@[email protected] is a maga troll that loves giving the Jan 6th traitors kisses on their little traitor faces
She’s more of a Devils advocate. Just stating the wrong opinion for others to explain what’s right. There’s never any clever comeback, so I kind of think that’s the reason for her to shitpost so heavily.
I’ve blocked plenty of trolls here, but not her, yet.
SMCF is one of the comfort usernames that I’ve seen around ever since joining Lemmy
Same tbh, the name always gives me a smirk lol
Yes yes it does… shart … fucker… 420, oh! shark! Misread it.
Comfort =/= super disgusting and weird on purpose
Wtf. Why didn’t you mention the cringe lord emperor striker?!
Thank you god-modereor for showing us the way… By force!
Goderator?
Don’t give them any ideas!
@admin MOD ABUSE!!!
Leaching on to mod powers to grab attention, for what purpose, I do not know.
To prevent the all powerful cum tsunami from wiping us all out
Nah, that one seems too funny to miss
Put me in the screenshot
Can any mere man wield such ferocious, blinding power?
A terrifyingly, beautiful thing to behold. But only just a glance.
I’m scared, feel like… like an Upper Neolithic man witnessing Nikolai Tesla inside his Faraday cage, as the bright blue electric current crackles and arches all around him.The elon musk mindset. Lmao
Mod abuse… how typical. Is your thirst for power satisfied now?
What would happen if we would all be mods? Did you think about it? You didn’t, did you?
Yeah idk. There is getting to be a lot of gonewild content too.
Thank Christ. Lemmy has been too prudish for too long.
You just have to block the lemmy.nfsw instance and it goes away. I’m not into porn and doing that made Lemmy lovely.
just have to block the lemmy.nfsw instance and it goes away
We need rogersimon. I miss his long stories that always ended with his dad beating him with a set of jumper cables.
As a Russian bot, I’m deeply offended
same here, i really hate all this neo-liberal drivel about how everything they don’t like is a CCP/Kremlin sponsored propoganda
This place is a shit hole. But it’s MY shit hole.
Yes fellow humans I am also a human and enjoy human activities such as consuming nutrient rich bread products and performing my nightly ritual of scraping detritus from my molars. There are no bots on Lemmy, Just fellow human(s).
Good job Ozma when the libs resort to ad-hominems you know you’re putting in work.
Yes anyone without your opinion is a LiB and that’s BaD because extra-militant Joffrey knows best
If the goal is winning hearts and minds I can’t say he’s doing much more than yada yada…status quo…yada yada some bullshit Russian talking point.
When the competition is “you’re not a real person, also you’re Russian”, even that may be enough.
Do you even understand what a meme is?
They’re paid to spread disinformation, not understand memes.
I’m saving that tanks mate. High quality memes
Very good +1000 social credit, OP
Huh
I think he is making a joke that OP is, in fact, the bot
Or maybe he’s just making fun of OP for circlejerking so hard and giving himself a pat on the back
What?
Exactly. Some random snide implication of Chinese support, no specifics though
Lemmygrad, Hexbear, & Lemmy.ml.
Another social media claims it’s the better than everything else while it’s clearly not for the nth time. Why am I not surprised
It’s an egregious error to not have The Picard Manuever as our Supreme Ruler
Всмысле блядь нет русских ботов? Я что для вас, шутка?
@Amoxtli coming up fast in the rankings…
