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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (4 children)

From my time on Lemmy. There seems to be a lot of American propaganda on here from people.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see a lot of Chinese propaganda as well

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Russian and North Korea for some reason

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of people here who will try to convince you that NK is some sort of paradise here is insane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

NK is some sort of paradise

The bar for "paradise" is so low. Just living in a country where you don't have chronic homelessness, endless war, and rampant medical bankruptcy seems to qualify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

North Korea has been in a war since it was created.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

This is exactly the shit I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sometimes I don't know if it's propaganda or some inferiority complex because I've seen some propaganda from my country (MX) and if I try to go against it I get downvoted constantly (a lot less since I joined an instance that blocked ml, grad and hex) by people adamant into telling me how they lived here for a while, they have family here or how I am ignorant about that country, like... Bitch, everyone in my family has lived here for 3 generations at least, don't come here to tell me how things work when I have to deal with the consequences of a kakistocracy that keeps shitting on everything.
A lot of the fediverse users just have to be right when it comes to politics... And vaping, don't you dare have questions or doubts about vaping because they get mad.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Do you think actual sponsored accounts/bots or just indoctrinated people?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

100% just indoctrinated people, lemmy is too small to catch anyone's attention.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You tend to have very extreme views, which sometimes get heavily downvoted. It’s convenient for you to blame that on “American indoctrination.”

And as you say, Lemmy is too small. So maybe it’s just that a lot of people here do not agree with your views.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even for people, who are not Leninist/Stalinist or similar, it is noticeable.

From my perspective (being not from the US) us-american arrogance is very present on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

us-american arrogance is very present ~~on lemmy~~ literally everywhere.

ftfy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both, but there was definitely blatant astroturfing after Biden withdrew and Kamala became the nominee.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think we just have a surprising amount of political staffers in Lemmy. The bulk does seem to be wealthy people living in suburbs. Look at how the biggest groups are people self hosting thousands and thousands of dollars of equipment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Surprising amount of political staffers... As if that is a class of people. Those people are normies and not tech savvy. They're all workaholics too so most of them probably only used LinkedIn for social media.

Your idea that people who self-host somehow equals political staffers is just asinine. There's literally no overlap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i really doubt any major organizations are paying for bots, at least not on lemmy. we're just not big enough methinks
if there are any it's probably a smaller operation done by a few people max.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

the methamphetamine epidemic has hit the squid population hard

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

yeah but there's tankies too, so it cancels out