Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*

• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Instance admins have pretty good information at their disposal to identify bots.

  I have yet to see any instance admin say that there is any significant amount of bots, outside of the occasional spate of spamming. I only see such theories & accusasions come from non-admins, with no accompanying compelling evidence.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  well the good news is that everybody - and that includes the US - creates psyops all the time, so that makes it fair.

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  • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Image This is Eglin Air Force Base checking in. fed

    Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)
    Eglin Air Force Base, FL
    Oak Brook, IL
    South St. Paul, MN

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      ?

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      • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What I’m saying is that Reddit is packed with US government psyop coming from Eglin AFB en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglin_Air_Force_Base#Depart…

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• Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I could be wrong but to me it feels odd to think lemmy is big enough to be worth organizing psyops for.

  Not to say it couldn’t be an issue in the future, but it feels much more likely that people expressing pro Russia sentiment are just people who bought into that particular brand of propaganda.

  Which like, to some extent all of our individual world views are shaped by the environment of propaganda we’re exposed to. We’re all products of our social conditioning, and ultimately that’s exactly what propaganda is. Media designed to socially condition people to a certain set of beliefs. All we as individuals can do is be aware of it and be willing to look at our own beliefs critically.

  But at the end of the day I think the folks praising Russia on lemmy are just people. People I personally think are misguided, but I don’t think theyre generally acting in bad faith any more than the general population here.

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  • Nursery2787@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Honestly if anyone is doing that I really feel like it would be the US, not Russia.

      Russia’s goal is to sew discord and unballance the populace that drives politics, and for that to work you need a MASSIVE scale that we just don’t really have. They don’t really have much to gain from the IP addresses of a handful of leftists

      But Lemmy is exactly the kind of hotspot for people DEEPLY angry about the government of the US to organize that if we’re big enough to be on their radar, the US government would have a vested interest in keeping an eye on potential dissidents. Unlike Russia IP addresses and personally identifiable information would be useful to them, in identifying threat actors, tracking their activity and volatility online, and building cases that would allow them to prosecute should said dissidents escalate

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lemmy being splintered and opposed to all forms of authority makes it perfect for radicalizing individuals to commit great harm and violence in their community.

    All movement starts at the grassroots.

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• Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve had the thought that if I were to design a psyop campaign, a pretty solid option for dominating the discussion would be to come out swinging and accuse everyone else of being an agent. That way, people have to either constantly defend against accusations, or they conclude, rightly, the accusations are baseless and decide to disregard the very idea that there is a psyop going on.

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