TheRealBob

@TheRealBob@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other websites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was talking about social media specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other websites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There aren’t nearly as many right wingers and fascists as social media makes you believe. Speaking as a Mastodon instance admin, every single time we’ve had huge waves of bot and/or troll signups they’ve been very clearly right wing accounts (almost all had similar bios) that almost immediately started interacting with and boosting each other as well as harassing trans and queer people.

  The thing about the fediverse is that it can’t be manipulated the way centralized social media can. So what happens is that it gets handled very quickly. They get banned and their instances get defederated so all they can do is shout into the void. They’re not, nor have they ever been, the majority by any stretch of the imagination, and most people have absolutely no desire to hear what they have to say at all.

  On top of that, a huge number of them are grifters, and they won’t get any engagement here. They can’t get the kind of viral outrage they need because most people aren’t even seeing their posts.