• SamboT@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    So if youll join me down disinformation avenue, do you think these are largely real people? I only ask because every time i find myself turning back to corporate social media its because the high polarization of all topics by people like that on lemmy.

    It seems like a good deterrent to the adoption of FOSS social media if someone were to employ ai to do so, but i can also believe that the first people to transition to FOSS would be highly radicalized people.

    • Klear@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      To me the tankies here are like T_D was on reddit. Hell, their posting style is similar in many ways.

      If anything, it made my transition to Lemmy more smooth. Oh, we have a different-yet-faimilar brand of idiots here! Cool.

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      2 days ago

      Lemmy’s main developers are avowed communists who run one of the tankie instances themselves. I prefer Occam’s razor here. They are what they say they are.

      I’m an advocate for defederating all their instances. But it’s because they make the fediverse a worse experience for users and I believe in curated positive spaces (à la the Nazi bar thought experiment) over unfettered free speech. It’s not because I believe they’re a false flag operation or bots.