Comment by moistclump@lemmy.world on Were this the ‘good ole times’ they always talk about?

Honest question. What kind of propaganda are you seeing on Lemmy? Nothing comes to mind.

I mostly see… Linux stuff. And I am not a computer person. Is that propaganda?

propaganda /prŏp″ə-găn′də/

noun The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause.

Yep, so I’m right, hexbear is just as much propaganda as, say, News, Worldnews, or any other political instance/community.

Lemmy is very politically active, because to choose lemmy is to reject Reddit. People pick Lemmy over reddit for political reasons, such as preferring FOSS and decentralization, which tend to align far more with leftist beliefs.

Case closed.

And that’s fine (more or less, I wish people would be more responsible about using sources that frame things objectively rather than ones that are biased towards their opinion) on political communities. It’s annoying on communities that aren’t made for politics.

Wait wait wait wait wait….

So is it propaganda or not? The second portion of that definition (or is it a whole second definition?) is quite a bit more vague.

Yes, but not in the same sense of “government sponsored bot propaganda,” and in the same sense as News and Worldnews are propaganda.

Hexbear is made up of users that genuinely seem to believe in their ideologies, rather than being sponsored by some state like others have implied.

It is a separate definition. It didn’t copy correctly. I fixed it.

Anyway I would say it constitutes propaganda based off the first definition.

I’m so sorry you’ve been exposed to political views different from your own, I hope you’ll be able to recover from that one day.

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tankie is a term imbeciles use to signal group membership to other imbeciles

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