• Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Funny, I called him out on being more interested in attacking Liberalism and supporting fascist regimes than actually speaking out against human rights crimes, and noted that he has a concerning bias towards political spheres which currently have an approaching/ongoing election. My suspicion became that he’s a tankie programmer who happens to just like this space in his down time, but genuine Putin praising Russian citizen/asset was never really off the table.

      • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I’m convinced at least one of the .Ml admins are literally just paid shills for totalitarian regimes (Davel). Yogthos has the same link spam with no substance argumentation.

        What’s interesting and telling is these guys’ rhetoric isn’t actually focused on particular issues, but exclusively the actions of states and how Russia, China, and North Korea are all pinnacles of morality and success, while US bad.

        The more of their shit you read the more obvious it becomes

        And they run the instance

        Idk. Doesn’t bode well for Lemmy long term, they make the entire software stink

        • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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          1 month ago

          This is where I am as well. There’s a real possibility that .ml is funded intentionally as a training and on-boarding forum for troll farm recruits to get some practice in before they get promoted to reddit and Facebook. I suspect the people behind some of these more notable accounts are different people every month.

        • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Weirdly glad to see your experiences mirror mine, even if they make a sad reality.

          Idk. Doesn’t bode well for Lemmy long term, they make the entire software stink

          This is my concern, too. I do respect what they’ve created - getting social networking out of the hands of corporations and functioning as a decentralized collective is a good idea - but as I said somewhere else, the ideology that led to this shared goal looks to be problematic. I have no interest in trading capital-fascism for good ol’ fashioned fascism.