• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I always wonder if Russia would collapse, if suddenly a lot of the disinfo & hate on various online media would become noticeably quieter.

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      That partially already happened at the start of the war. There was a massive “brain drain” among the higher educated part of society, which did include a bunch of hackers. Why live inside russia these days when you can move elsewhere and get paid better?

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      1 year ago

      Oh man, where would Lemmy be without all the communist propaganda memes?

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        1 year ago

        communist propaganda

        It’s like you know that these are words, and they’re words that you’ve seen people put together in the past, but you have no idea what they mean.

        Where is anyone talking about communism? Where is the propaganda? What the fuck are you even talking about??

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          1 year ago

          Where is anyone talking about communism?

          Lemmygrad.ml, I assume? I dunno if it’s “propaganda,” though, mainly because I haven’t really seen much from that instance. It isn’t defederated or anything; it just apparently isn’t popular enough to show up in Active/Hot/Top.

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            I see a lot of communism good/capitalism bad meme content in lemmy.ml in general. Now I’m really not against communism and I absolutely see the negative effects of western society’s brand of unregulated late stage capitalism, but political meme content in general is just entirely devoid of all nuance to the point where people are seriously dropping silly statements like “capitalism is the sole contributor to climate change”, as if if you could turn off capitalism climate change would just stop lol. It’s straight up propaganda.

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              That and conveniently ignoring any negatives involving China/Russia.

              There are a few users on Lemmy.ml who I see all over the place. Half their posts will just be funny “lol capitalism sucks, amirite?” memes and the other half will be “Look at how China is ushering the world into a golden age of social and economic progress” or “When will the west acknowledge Ukraine’s Nazi problem?”

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    1 year ago

    why are these are being set up in Ukraine and not Russia? What do they gain from having them within reach of the Ukrainian police?

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      My guess is that it’d make it look like it were actual ukrainians spreading the disinfo, as the IP wouldn’t show russian addresses. Could also be that Ukraine is blocking internet traffic from Russia, so being there is a way to bypass the block.

      I fully expect the assholes behind said farms to be safely within russian territory, so they’re just sighing and shrugging as having to set up a new base.

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    be interesting to see how much the usership of lemmygrad drops lol

    (and the rest of lemmy)

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      Nah, lemmy is too small of a circlejerk to really be a target for these people. I don’t think instances require working phone numbers for account creation anyway.

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        bruh, if its small the troll farms have no problem outmassing real ppl

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          Yeah but if there aren’t enough eyeballs on the spam it doesn’t actually matter.