Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Treat it like a troll post. Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar block them.

  This goes for all propaganda not just the stuff you are against.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That assumes you accurately define propaganda. I think we’ve all faced half baked allegations as such, and had people vote with the accuser, you want everyone to be seperated from each other on here because they misunderstood a point, or understood different facts, or because they are a dumbass on a different topic?

    Just downvote, and move on, unless the person is stalking you, looking at you hexrat, or whatever fucking mammal.

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    • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was true until I realized they’re all over. Anything even remotely pertaining to China is flooded with the Chinese state actors reply guys and bots. In effect, using the protocols strength against itself. Is the protocol itself even able to be banned in China? Are they seriously active on here just to push their bullshit China marketing even harder. They’ve gone all out the last five years.

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    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Irony thy name is Hector.

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  • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still don’t understand the point of downvoting here since it doesn’t seem to affect visibility. You’ll have the dumbest take on something sitting there at -36 and I still have to look at it.

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Entire subs and communities, and servers are Chinese state actors. I wish we could daylight this bullshit, a single serving page with a method for rankings subs, servers with biases?

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Show your evidence

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar block them.

    Sorry, but you forgot a step:

    Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar report them and then block them.

    Moderators should help so not all users will need to block these bad actors.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’a a global positive shift in opinion on China that’s happened over the first year of Trump. The trend was already there in the Global South but it’s now happening everywhere. Add to that there are more people on Lemmy from non-NA/EU countries than on US-centric platforms like Reddit and this shift becomes more apparent. In Western countries the positivr opinion on China is less of an ally and more of a neccessary partner. If you’re primed to not see anything positive about China, then even positive views around partnership could appear as pro-China propaganda. Here’s a pic:

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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are a lot of people supportive of the PRC, both because the US Empire is declining and the PRC is positioned as an alternative to the US Empire’s naked terrorism, and because Lemmy has a lot of communists. Lemmy has a lot of communists because the lead developers are communists, FOSS attracts communists, and because as Reddit bans communist communities they are often suggested to come here.

  There’s absolutely no credible evidence of CPC interference in Lemmy.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    okay but it’s also a normal thing for the CPC to monitor and influence online spaces

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In as much as every government does, sure, though the CPC largely sticks to the Chinese sphere of the internet.

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Prove it

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  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This seems right. Personally I’m not sure I could roll my eyes harder at the fact that so many people in 2026 are so ignorant as to be prepared to call themselves “communists” - after all the famines, the purges, the 40 years in which much of Europe was struggling to escape (literally) from communism… And then I saw that you, too, call yourself a communist! So I guess I’ll stop there.

    Except to recommend you the Ones and Tooze podcast, in which the brilliant host (an ex-communist) recently did a whole series, in great and illuminating detail, on the various communist thinkers. Which I listened to… dutifully.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Communists govern the largest economy in the world by PPP, and capitalism is falling apart at the seams as the spoils of imperialism are beginning to be cut off. The global south is escaping underdevelopment, and this is forcing austerity in the west, explaining the surge to the right. In the US Empire, communists are more and more common than ever before:

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      Famine was ended by communists in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, etc. These areas had woefully inefficient systems of agriculture, such as the kulak system, which served to enrich one group of people over the laborers they employed. Collectivization combined with industrialization is why food security was achieved after the introduction of socialism to these countries, and the famines commonly attributed by western historians to communism were the last of a long line of regular famines.

      Similarly, purges in the largest majority of cases meant expulsion from the party or position, not execution, except in times of crisis, like the 1930s when fascism was on the rise. They were not done arbitrarily, but as a response to corruption, subterfuge, and sabotage.

      It’s also a bit silly to suggest that people spent “40 years trying to escape communism.” Right up to the end, the majority of people in the USSR wished to retain both the USSR and the system of socialism. This is proven not just from eyewitness reports of support, but also vote totals:

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      Moreover, after the fall of socialism in Europe, the majority of people want it back or say they are worse off. This is compounded by the fact that over 90% of the Chinese population supports their government and system. Socialist countries run by communists have higher approval rates than capitalist states.

      Looking at Adam Tooze, I don’t see much indicating him as a former communist. He grew up in West Germany in the height of the Cold War, is trained in liberal economics such as Keynesian economics, though his grandfather was allegedly a soviet recruiter, which is cool. I’m not really convinced I could find much out of his mini-series on Luxemburg, Trotsky, Stalin, or Lenin, considering I’ve already read works both by them and about them in greater detail than a podcast is going to cover.

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    • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Their idol Mao killed approx 160 million humans.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the PRC is not nearly an alternative to the US empire, its a replacement to it, with different but overlapping trade-offs. what about neither? It’s seriously like instagram users fleeing to tiktok, then to upscroll or whichever other corporate platform.

    the bad of the US does not make the PRC good. I want change, big changes, but definitely not that kind.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The US Empire is currently exporting mass death and destruction globally, threatening Greenland and Canada with annexation, kidnapped another country’s president and first lady, is performing piracy for oil, threatening Cuba, and on top of all of these overt acts of terror, is super-exploiting the global south for super profits. The PRC, on the other hand, as a socialist country, is far more peaceful, maintains a defensive millitary, has ~3 overseas millitary bases compared to the hundreds of the US Empire, and offers mutual development opportunities like Belt and Road.

      The differences are staggering. When countries in the global south partner with the US Empire, they are trapped in cycles of underdevelopment, where their surplus value is plundered. When countries in the global south trade and partner with the PRC, they achieve rapid development, and escape the never-ending cycle of impoverishment. This win-win development isn’t because China is more morally good, but because their economic structure and geopolitical position compels them towards mutual cooperation over plunder and terror.

      Further, there isn’t really an alternative to the US Empire and PRC. The US Empire is actively invading countries to make sure they comply. The EU is vassalized by the US Empire. When we look at who the global south goes to for development opportunities, they are increasingly rejecting western imperialism in favor of cooperation with China and BRICS, and forming mutual partnerships with neighboring countries (like the Alliance of Sahel States).

      The bad of the US Empire isn’t why the PRC is better, the sheer benefit of working with the PRC is why the PRC is better.

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  • king_comrade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man’s freaking out cos he just learned .ml stands for marxist-leninist 😂 Glad to find something we strongly agree on tho comrade.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be clear, .ml stands for Mali, and it was allegedly chosen because it was cheap/free. Lemmy.ml is just the flagship, test instance, and happens to have a lot of communists because the devs are communists. Lemmygrad.ml is explicitly ML.

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  • Tuscy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to be critical of PRC even though I’m American Chinese. Nowadays however I just don’t want to be governed by a pedo king. Seeing a bunch of teslas around when Elon is also very clearly on the list sucks too. Guess this is Chinese propaganda…

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• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m no fan of Tankies or the CCP, but I’m really not seeing any more pro-china propaganda than you see elsewhere, mostly excitement as a result of their green tech stuff or HSR (while ignoring why China has a

  I am seeing a surprising amount of anti-china paranoia from the UK press right now that frankly seems like it’s engineered by the US given its timing. Like articles about diplomats using burner phones as if that isn’t standard (for all countries).

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You should go away and stop wildly fear mongering.

  I am sure

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I heard they’ve stopped all fear mongering in China

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    • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol right? Dude the Chinese bots and reply guys are so obvious.

      Poo bear’s gotta up his game on 🐻

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• Peehole@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You have discovered .ml? Yeah the lead devs are tankies lol

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So they’re trying to capture mind share of technologists. Nice play, I’m embarrassed.

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    • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Register on a different instance and filter everything ml. It’s a life changer with the Fediverse.

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• chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sinophobia will get you nowhere. Those “Chinese State Actors” on the Fediverse are largely Western crackers who read theory and oppose Imperialism. You shouldn’t bogeyman an entire nation you don’t know anything about, this is xenophobic and also works against the working class.

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I tend to agree with sentiment. Its more useful idiots type then cynical profesionals feeling.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Plenty of Russian propaganda too. Every “conservative” community or server is essentially acting in Putin’s favor.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget USAian propaganda. By far the most prevalent under this regime.

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    • KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tend to find Lemmy to be pretty good at being critical of the US

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  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Both often go hand in hand

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can safely assume that anything on .ml or lemmygrad is. Just don’t subscribe to them. I can give you a block list that encompasses most of the ones who don’t stay nicely in .ml land. We should have shareable block lists like BlueSky to get new users up and running quickly. I hope that PieFed eventually does some stuff like this.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s safe to assume that the enemy is promoting propaganda while our noble nation is promoting the truth!!! \s

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The difference is that I don’t get banned/censored on western instances for criticizing Trump or US military interventions.

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    • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah. Enlightened centrism.

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  • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can export your settings, remove everything unrelated to blocks, and share it. Then other users can import the json file and it will be added to their existing blocklist.

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good hint, but there needs to be an online registry of them where you can subscribe to them and get updates automatically when they change. This is how Bluesky works and it works very well.

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemmy.ml is?!? That’s who I signed up for though. I like the privacy stuff. So which instance is politically neutral but technically aligned, pirate party, self hosting etc?

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes Lemmy.ml is the most popular of the tankie instances. They will ban you, remove your posts, etc in most major communities if you say anything negative about CCCP, Russia, Communism, etc.

      I can recommend lemmus.org as a very fast and efficient instance. Remember, you don’t have to have an account on the instance who’s communities you want to access. You can access communities on all instances from any instance. So the policies of your home instance don’t really affect you much. They only affect the communities hosted there.

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    • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      politically neutral <> pirate party

      Pick one

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    • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So which instance is politically neutral

      There is no such thing as “politically neutral.” What you perceive as neutral is that which is hegemonic.

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    • Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you’re concerned about privacy, you should probably know that a lot in the fediverse is very open by design so that other instances can communicate effectively.

      That’s why everyone can see what you upvote/downvote, even if Lemmy itself doesn’t show this to you in its UI.

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    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m a big fan of my instance im on so fat. sh.itjust.works/

      They are more focused on a working platform then silecing dessent

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• rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Capitalist propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. Most big instances -generalist, tech or something are wholly controlled by bourgeois people who would rather uphold state violence than democracy. What do you think?

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because the USA and Europe are shining beacons of truth and human rights.

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What you’re describing is false moral equivalence used as a deflective propaganda strategy.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What you described is a state enemy used to deflect attention from the many enemies within this state.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      AKA “whataboutism”.

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• hamid@crazypeople.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think you are having delusions

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  leftists* are rampant on the fediverse

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  • KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not all leftists are supportive of China, anarchists certainly aren’t.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not a rule, though. Many anarchists critically support the PRC and consider socialism to be better to capitalism, even if they disagree with Marxism and seek communalization over collectivization in the final analysis. As an alternative to the US Empire’s naked terrorism, the PRC plays a positive role.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🫡 A natural consequence of leftist ideology.

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  • king_comrade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed, I find comrades of all kinds of colours and stripes here.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lemmy.ml is just like that, maybe you want to look for a new home instance.

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• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s rampant is imperial core propaganda. You see the “Chinese propaganda” as “rampant” because you’re used to seeing only imperial core propaganda, which is how the internet looks on corporate media, including corporate social media.

  Previously:

  The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

  The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’. This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

  The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

  None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

  • Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
  • Propaganda model
  • Edward Bernays
  • Walter Lippmann
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Powell Memorandum
  • The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

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  * I’ve criticized MBFC & Ad Fontes before:

  • lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172
  • lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612

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  • goat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ah yes, corporate media such as… the BBC

    truly yank brained

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    • ChaosAD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you trying to be ironic? Of course the BBC is pro imperialism.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Change instance and block the lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do you recommend instead? I sign up on another instance? Which one?

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    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any really. .ml is the main chinese hot pot

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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe db0? At least based off what you’re after in your comments.

      Of course there’s also the more regional instances, such as feddit.uk, lemmy.ca, etc.

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can I take my account with me? Or spin up a new account and username?

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    • placebo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can export your settings and subscriptions and import them elsewhere. You’ll lose your post/comment history though.

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You make a new account.

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• king_comrade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gonna share any examples? Is the Chinese propaganda in the room with us?

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been banned from several communities because I addressed the issues with slavery in China in a comment, and because I dared to critize the CCPs antiworker policies (like denying unions that dont align with what the leadership idea of the national interest).

    I can get some evidence in some of the time but then ill be sudenly banned.

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    • king_comrade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which communities are problematic? I’ve not experienced any censoring when I’ve argued with tankies in the past, even got away with using ‘red fascist’. I assume I’ve been blocked by a few folk tho aha…

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  • ChaosAD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol

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• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ironically, the most active user on the current #2 China community, !china@sopuli.xyz, is an absolutely indefatigable anti-Chinese propagandist.

  This person, @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org posts multiple times per day, usually quite sensible and well-sourced articles, but always on the same downer subjects (repression, Uighurs, corruption and so on) and never anything that paints China (let alone its government) in the slightest positive light. Since nobody else in this community can match their posting stamina, the end result is a community that, to newcomers, looks like one rando’s “I hate China” blog. Hardly surprising that it’s not a very successful community.

  I’ve asked this user to consider dropping the tempo a bit, and been met with defensiveness. I complained in private to the mod, who is completely AWOL, and they didn’t care. Oh well.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not even 1 account. It’s a collection of sockpuppets. I started noticing them when they started posting in !Canada@lemmy.ca but apparently the streak goes quite further back. The latest ones are Sepia and tardigrade.

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    • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ultimately the problem is that the mods for the communities they frequently post to have allowed this to go on for years. They have to know by now what’s going on, and by doing nothing they tacitly endorse it.

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    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Out of interest, how do you know it’s sockpuppets?

      To be honest I’m genuinely a bit interested in who this might be. I’m imagining a disgruntled Hong Kong exile with too much time on their hands. Also seems likely to be Chinese in that they have a top-down concept of information, not seeing that obvious and relentless propaganda will just backfire with a sophisticated and relatively informed audience. Perhaps I’m being slightly optimistic, but I can’t see how they’ve convinced anyone here that “China bad” who didn’t already think that.

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  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    never anything that paints China (let alone its government) in the slightest positive light

    Feel free to change that. Just use quite sensible and well-sourced articles.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your instance is the lead actor in that

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• comfy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On the topic, I’ve been seeing plenty of war-hawk think-tank accounts who only post propaganda, like:

  • Scotty@scribe.disroot.org
  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org
  • randomname@scribe.disroot.org
  • 0x815@feddit.org (and all their alt-accounts, including 0x815@feddit.de and thelucky8@beehaw.org )

  They are clearly not involved in our communities.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure these are all the same person. If you ever engage, you can recognize the same asshole attitude.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/22522523

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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you have a shred of actual evidence for this? Or is it just the standard lib ad-hom of accusing those who disagree of being evil foreigners?

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• Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Leave .ml, ban instance. 90% fixed.

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• BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  your mom is rampant on this dick

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  • Konstant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    哈！Gottem！

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• Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The lemmy developers are tankies and three big lemmy servers are entirely controlled by them, namely hexbear, lemmigrad and Lemmy.ml. You will find plenty of China, North Korea and for some kind of reason Russian propaganda on them.

  !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

  !tankiejerk@piefed.social

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, imperial propaganda is completely normal and overwhelming. It doesn’t matter which empire. It’s just brainwashed sinophobia to blame “China” alone.

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• murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love these posts, they’re always a treasure trove of accounts to block.

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• thoro@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Days in the fediverse comm without explicit anti-communism and red scare fearmongering: 0

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors.

  As one of the moderators of !memes@lemmy.ml i encourage OP to look at the sort of posts i make and tell me - do you really think i’m a “Chinese state actor”? You think all these posts i make in, eg, !hoch@lemmy.ml are part of a carefully-crafted cover, and I’m actually being paid by China to delete totally-not-racist posts depicting their president as a yellow cartoon bear? And for this service, to maintain my cover, they pay me to create things like this and this and this this and this and this (a small sample of my OC memes here)? Really?

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• Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m sorry to say that lemmy is not popular enough to be on CPC’s radar.

  The CPC’s propaganda budget is mostly focused on what Chinese people would read if they get over the great firewall (mainly YouTube and Twitter).

  Second to that is the general “feel good” stories, like scenery, food, or panda (recently high-speed trains), aiming at the mainstream Western public. You may see those on lemmy, but it’s very unlikely that the state propagandists are the ones posting them here.

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• Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wouldn't say necessarily China controlled. Social engineering is great for making people replicate the engineering without noticing.

  But indeed I notice a lot of posts that benefit China since I joined in some years back (thanks Spez), specially in news and country-specific communities.

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