I know they’ve always been on Lemmy, but it seems like the past few weeks it’s slowly increasing, making me want to just stay on beehaw /local. Showing up on more communities, even on servers that ban that type of trolling explicitly.

Anyone else notice this?

Note: When I’m saying Tankie here, I’m not referring to far leftists, socialists, etc. I’m talking about trolls that act leftist but their actual intent is to cause infighting and support authoritarian regimes. Sealioning, all that stuff.

  • alvvaysonEnglish
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    6 months ago

    A few days ago, a mildly critical comment of mine against Netanyahu was removed by the lemmy.world mods.

    I said something like, both Netanyahu and Hamas want this war. Not too controversial, I would think.

    It was in a thread on lemmy.ml

    Anyway, I ditched my lemmy.world account and made this alt my main.

    But yeah, the bots and propagandists have found lemmy, too. They seem to be focussing on the bigger instances.

    • huginnEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Damn .world mods going into other instances to police the comments of their own users.

      Fucked up.

      • RobotToasterEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The more I read about .world the more I’m convinced it’s run by feds.

        • averyminyaEnglish
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          6 months ago

          The more I read their moderators comments the more I can’t help but feel similarly. Such a strong condescending tone, it’s like every comment has the clown emoji embedded into it.

          • maegul (he/they)English
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            6 months ago

            I think the reality is much simpler, they’re run by people who see themselves as mainstream social media providers, just on the fediverse. And along with mastodon.world, they’re not wrong.

    • FizzEnglish
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      6 months ago

      That would be removed for saying that hamas want the war not for criticism against bb. You can’t be even the slightest bit anti Palestine.