They followed me around and down voted everything I posted for a while (memes, conversational comments, everything). Oh and they also threatened to kill me. Fuck hexbear and all its users.

Fortunately we’re also destroying the oceans

Yggdiculous

Yeah, I imagined basically exactly that happening and decided not to tell anyone about it, not yet anyway. Also, I don’t want them to get death threats from Hexbear like I did…

Same, I haven’t told a soul I use it despite being active here over a year. I still believe in it though (or just really hate the idea of accepting corporate social media).

I think they’re paid to spread disinformation (or run LLMs that spread it) that makes “the West” look bad and their authoritarian leaders (CCP, Kremlin) look good.

So if someone mentions Tiananmen Square they delete it or lie about it, or say “what about Mk ultra,” but not because they actually believe in anything other than getting paid.

Thanks! It’s already happening.

I wonder how many good, reasonable people have checked out Lemmy and seen all the CCP/Kremlin propaganda then just left.

Yes good point, I suggest we deal with it by defederating hexbear and the .ml instances.

The Hexbear and .ml instances aren’t really tankies/communists, IMHO. Some of them, sure, but mostly it’s just a facade for their propaganda.

Shame they couldn’t broadcast their own content to break through some of the Kremlin’s grip on Russian people’s minds.

The Kremlin is so worried about losing their ability to brainwash tje Russian people that they won’t even allow them to access YouTube.

"Well, it smells disgusting, feels mushy and gross, looks nasty, and I’m traumatized for life after hearing the portapotties at the burrito festival. OK, just one more sense to test…

That about as close to Baileys as I can get without getting my eyes wet

Aperaham Lincoln

Bots are a big problem on Lemmy too.

Good luck with your hard times. It gets better

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Lucky

People should be welcome and free to discuss just about anything, authoritarian governments and their propagandists should be kicked the fuck out.

Yeah, I see equal voice as an important goal to strive for, but realize that’s difficult on anonymous social media. It seems like it’ll only get worse as LLMs improve.