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From my time on Lemmy. There seems to be a lot of American propaganda on here from people.

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I see a lot of Chinese propaganda as well

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24 points

And Russian and North Korea for some reason

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The amount of people here who will try to convince you that NK is some sort of paradise here is insane.

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19 points

Do you think actual sponsored accounts/bots or just indoctrinated people?

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30 points

100% just indoctrinated people, lemmy is too small to catch anyone’s attention.

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17 points

You tend to have very extreme views, which sometimes get heavily downvoted. It’s convenient for you to blame that on “American indoctrination.”

And as you say, Lemmy is too small. So maybe it’s just that a lot of people here do not agree with your views.

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8 points

Both, but there was definitely blatant astroturfing after Biden withdrew and Kamala became the nominee.

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I think we just have a surprising amount of political staffers in Lemmy. The bulk does seem to be wealthy people living in suburbs. Look at how the biggest groups are people self hosting thousands and thousands of dollars of equipment.

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i really doubt any major organizations are paying for bots, at least not on lemmy. we’re just not big enough methinks
if there are any it’s probably a smaller operation done by a few people max.

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10 points

yeah but there’s tankies too, so it cancels out

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Dude. The Russian propaganda flows freely around here.

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19 points

You don’t have to interact with .ml instances, you know?

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17 points

If you think it’s contained within one instance then you are the exact type of mark they are after.

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1 point

Pushing anti-Russia propaganda? Clearly a Democrat shill.

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12 points

Dont worry, if you put propoganda of opposite polarity together they cancel eachother out. /s

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1 point

No no no. Propaganda is inherently Russian.

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I mean, freedom means all propaganda is welcome, so that should cancel out, right? Right?

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Unless you mean saying the truths that Ukrain is Fash, and that Ukraine is loosing and will lose is state funded propoganda (My bank account says otherwise) I do not know what you are talking about

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28 points

does Fediverse have a short form video content platform? cuz that’s what people really care about these days

(also side note, we all really should avoid or limit short form video content consumption…)

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I believe Pixelfed Loops is the only one currently, it’s actually not half bad, apart from how barebones and stuttery the app is, which isn’t a big deal since the issues are only occasional.

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11 points

I haven’t checked it out yet but “loops” is supposed to be that

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9 points

I don’t understand it at all. I find it infuriating. I need long videos to play in the background while I work. I can’t get anything done with this short crap. Maybe that’s the point…

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17 points

Short-form videos, like many things in modern society (e.g. many video games) are essentially just a Skinner Box. You scroll, watch the video, get a hit of pleasure, and then the video automatically replays. That cues you to scroll. Repeat. It’s easy to get stuck in that loop, especially if you already are struggling with executive dysfunction and can’t find motivation/pleasure in ordinary activities.

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I guess I just don’t get the hit of pleasure from it. I feel like I’m just getting into whatever it is and then it blue-balls me.

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6 points

I mean, that’s just two different purposes of two different formats.

Short form content is not made to be played in the background while you work, nor is it made for intricate and detailed analysis or essays. It’s made to have something occupy your mind during short breaks like toilet or smoke break or while waiting for the bus or something.

Long and short form content don’t compete but compliment with each other. If you don’t like one or the other, that’s totally fine, then you’re just not part of the target audience.

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We should form our own propaganda. Not as a counterpoint, but as part of a wider fediverse identity.

But to successfully do this without being grouped together with one of the more mainstream platforms, it will have to be one so far removed from established axis’ of alignments:

  • Impossible to place on left vs right.
  • Impossible to compared with authoritarianism vs democracy
  • Cannot be tied to a specific geopolitical agenda
  • cannot align with a specific country’s interests

How about this: “Sasquatch did 9/11 to distract us from the fact that Big Farming puts nutrients in our food, and the Dutch lgbtq communities are the only one who can save us”

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Impossible to place on left vs right

Not possible unfortunately 😅

What you’ve come up with there would be considered “left wing” 😂

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Ok, let’s add some war hawking in there: A pro-colonialist stance in regards to invading Bouvet island.

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1 point

Who’d want that place, I read that weird birds will steal your fish & chips there.

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4 points

Sorry, but I cannot abide the Dutch

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4 points

lol the British flag in the bottom right

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4 points

After Brexit they just wanted to be part of something… anything.

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