Oh there’s plenty of propaganda here, pretty extreme as well…
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.
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.
Uh no. Lemmy is very much a groupthink entity. If you don’t agree with the hive, you’re berated and downvoted into oblivion.
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.
If you think there’s no propaganda on lemmy then I have news for you.
And fake internet points.
And I’m sure top men are working on monetization.
I’ve already seen plenty of posts and comments that look suspiciously product-placementy.
You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.
Idk why everyone keeps talking about kagi everytime searc engines are mentionned
I mean I’d be really surprised if we have monetization through anything other than wikipedia style donation drives
I see propaganda all over the place on here.
Posts like this are it, even. Hurrdurr we’re so much better circlejerk is grossing me out.
Propaganda is an organization disseminating information they want others to believe, whether it be true, false, or the typical tactic, a mix of both.
You pretty much can’t avoid it on social media, the only question is whether the action is direct from the organizations or grassroots support.
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?
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.
Yeah, and it’s people arguing about cars, Trump, rich people, work, Linux distros, not pooping, and communism.
Not pooping? I’m almost afraid to ask, but that’s the only one I’ve not come across yet…
There was an asklemmy post shortly after the exodus asking how to avoid a bowel movement for three days.
Great post. I give you my fake internet point up arrow.
