Were this the ‘good ole times’ they always talk about?

I’ll have you know that the fake internet points are still here and I will continue to use them to determine my worth in the eyes of my peers.

Only if you look for them. Not really in your face.

270 karma in 4 months. Cute.

Oddly enough that’s an average of 10 points per comment.

Also I can’t see total up votes in Sync, or I haven’t figured out where that is, so I don’t know if the total karma is correct, but I can see they’ve only made 27 comments in 4 months.

Boost for Lemmy (evolved from Boost for reddit) just continues to call it karma:

34.099 karma in 4 months. Cute.

Oh there’s plenty of propaganda here, pretty extreme as well…

It usually gets buried in downvotes tho, maniacs are everywhere…

Never doubt your ability to be influenced by propaganda. The technique that broke the internet in 2015, lying and then confirming the lie more convincingly with a second account, is still very successful today.

That broke the internet long before the 2000s.

confirms convincingly

Uh no. Lemmy is very much a groupthink entity. If you don’t agree with the hive, you’re berated and downvoted into oblivion.

Is this post a paradox?

It’s worse than Reddit in this respect.

Largely because Reddit was so much more diverse. Even ol hive mindey Reddit tolerated differing views significantly better than the shit heap that is Lemmy.

Oh, well, it might seem like it for you, on lemmy.world. My instance didn’t defederate a single other instance, and I can tell you there’s plenty.

I see you’re on lemmy.world. Try out a Lemmy that hasn’t blocked the tankie instances for a change, it’s wild.

There can’t be propaganda if everyone agrees with me! I think we’re in good shape!

Extreme? Like Tony the Tiger who is the mascot of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes cereal. They’re grrreat!

It’s not as clever yet, thought, as the demographic is rather small. I was amazed that reddits’ world news the comments were almost uniformly not only anti Hamas but pro Israel. I mean not to pick a side here, and not saying theres not astroturfing here. However there’s more diversity of position, whereas the reddit thread felt almost strangly like everyone was just saying stuff, but not carrying any meaning. Felt like the last scene of body snatchers where even the protagonist turns out to be snatched, in a way.

The amount of sophistication is lower. There are people holding extreme positions but quite often they self identify and aren’t state sponsored most of the time.

I agree and have noticed the same things. I don’t think Lemmy is big enough to attract the state sponsors yet like Reddit is but it will probably be susceptible to the same issues when it is.