Lemmy.ml is propaganda, and it will always be a disturbing reminder that Lemmy was developed by propagandists.

Except it is and it isn’t. He’s been laying the foundation to do just that. This is consistent with his “homegrown are next” messaging. Regardless of how many times he contradicts himself, it’s where he is most consistent that are most troubling because it signals at his longterm agendas: his third term aspirations, his comments on annexing Canada and Greenland, his comments on “you won’t have to vote again” in four years, his “homegrown are next” messages, etc.

He doesn’t need to distract with distractions when he can distract with all the shit he wants to bring about. He just needs to shift the news cycle at a high enough pace so that yesterday’s insanity becomes old news that is overshadowed by whatever BS people have to deal today.

Well informed and respectful response? Bigot, out with you! But calling Ukraine “the empire’s Nazi regime”, totally not racism or bigotry.

Or mbin.

It’s so ridiculous to claim to have a modlog for transparency, then just slap a no-reason number or flat out lie. Kudos to the admins and mods that don’t do that.

The real problem is, the main Lemmy developers actively peddle Russian and Chinese propaganda, and they know it. It really de-legitimizes Lemmy as a platform.

Unless your game is actively getting generated by AI, handling multiple branching storylines is n times the amount of work for n branches of the storyline a lot of players will never get to explore and will just watch on YouTube.

You mean like you don’t play Civilization because of having the same problematic 2K EULAs or watch YouTube because of its Terms of Service?

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He had sex with prostitutes as well. Forgot about Stormy Daniels?

If this is your bar, it is rather low. Even MAGA knows Trump knew Epstein just like they know he probably had sex with prostitutes. The only people who care already know.

If Trump’s threats manifest, that will be another matter entirely. So far, only words with only publicly known information. Both parties could have done much worse to incriminate the other.

Bannon is a Russian shill, Trump is getting propped from and making concessions to the Heritage Foundation, billionaires, and anyone interested overseas. Musk needs a facelift and still holds influence with the DOGE team as the one who created it.

They are transactional narcissists who think the rest of the population is full of marks. Even if it’s not an act, it will act as a loyalty test, a distraction, and an attempt for Musk to whitewash, and the clash will likely not last long. Both Trump and Musk are in full alignment about what DOGE is doing, and DOGE’s people are basically Musk appointees. Whether the feud is real doesn’t even matter.

It’s such an obvious charade when a thread he comments in a place that is a propaganda hotspot turns into a weird let’s begin praising Cowbee personality cult. The downvote brigade on this thread just confirms it. Three instances made just to out yourselves, brilliant thinking there.

Is this because they use art they find as filler and then forget to replace it, or is it because a graphic designer who was hired on salary just decided to explicitly take someone else’s work as their paycheck? The first option seems the most likely, since I’m sure their own artists are quite capable.

What I wish is that you didn’t need to depend on your instance to block other instances so much, but that it was easier to block comments and posts coming from those instances at a personal level. It is very buggy in some instances. I also wish that when a user that is blocked or banned from an instance or the user of a comment or a post they are replying to, it would indicate so. It isn’t that there is no reply to what they are saying, it’s that we are not bothering with it, and that would make it obvious when it happens.

fedia.io (defederated from 369 total instances), infosec.pub (defederated from 13 instannces), lemmy.cafe (defederated from 8 instannces) have defederated from lemmy.ml in case anyone is curious (used https://defed.xyz/check to check, any other suggestions?). I’ll have to check them out, things like this show care and awareness, the bigger instances don’t care or outright contribute to this propaganda.

You can tell where a lot about them by whether they make up obvious excuses like this or aren’t afraid to be blunt about their biases. They clearly are focusing on gearing the instance towards propaganda, not just a Russian / Chinese bias.

Any social networks that have non-censored participants are. Usually, China’s presence in social networks outside of its borders are for propaganda purposes.

Interesting. This and other actions seem to hint that they got themselves into the crosshairs of legal law enforcement. You reap what you sow. I suggest that people don’t ignore potential issues with an instance, because it does spill over in unexpected ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFdbbcj4Ao

The biggest problem with “federation” is the control given to bullshit admins in some of the biggest and how big into hiding their problems they are. One of the biggest instances has shoved two of their admins under the rug, without openly acknowledging why they did it or the drama there clearly is behind it, giving the impression that the problems those admins were creating have been addressed on one side and on the other just trying to dismiss it as “no big deal, they are just taking time off”.

So keep in mind joining some of those instances is just joining a good paint job. Sometimes, the rust breaks through, sometimes the rusted pieces get removed, but the people painting over the rust are still there.

It matters because when communities crowd around large instances, those admins have ultimate control over participation within them. And while easy to bypass, it will still affect the reputation your comment history would have represented.

Yeah, no, wouldn’t touch that from a longstick, specially from the political slant it’s coming from. Wikipedia itself already has enough problems, Ibis is just asking to be a misinformation hub.