The BothSidesBad comments have dropped by 70%, even in the thread about how much of a cunt Gavin Newsom is.
A bombing I can get behind. Also go URKRAIN!
Abligitory: release the y redacted Epstein files and hang all the traitors and pedos.
Has anyone checked on yogthos??
Now do Israeli data centers.
I actually use Yandex for torrents lol.
Edit: Yandex also has the best photo search of any search engine.
It was better years ago.
Not for long 🚀
This sounds like a good time to hop over to .ml and see who the useful idiots are
You know some of their favs are missing.
Sorry, what is .ml?
An instance that should be ignored by any reasonable standard really.
It’s Lemmy.ml, where the mods are tankies.
Marxist Leninist instance. Some users just appear to be paid chinese propagandists.
Yeah they 100% are. The China Show (ADV) on YouTube covers Chinese news every week, 99% of it never reaches Western news. Anyways they have footage of the CCP forcing prisoners on computers being forced to troll an shill CCP propaganda like 18 hours every day off the week.
It’s utterly crazy the money their propaganda machine pays to make people think it isn’t an absolute shit hole.
Wonder what it would be like if they spent the same amount of effort and money making people think it’s not a shithole by making it not a shithole?
Notoriously tankie lemmy instance.
You type “i dont think its ok to torture people” as a response to a news article about people being tortured, and somebody pops up with a history lesson about what your country did before you were born so maybe you should firebomb your own capital city instead of saying that other countries shouldn’t commit attrocities etc etc etc its 99% of the time somebody from .ml
And it doesn’t make any sense to begin with what they’re saying. They’ll contradict themselves constantly, had one say the USA is authoritarian then in the next post say such a thing doesn’t exist.
.ML users left in shambles.
You know, if they could still access lemmy in general.
Real. I joined it cuz it said it was FOSS focused and run by the creators of Lemmy which I thought was neat. Did not realize it was a tankie cesspool. I’m now banned from a good portion of it for “Nazi apologia” because I said calling Ukraine Nazis was Russian propaganda
It’s just Ukraine, no “the” in front.
Right thanks for the reminder
Just jump instances. I might have my reservations about how the aversion to monetization means a lot instances are unstable or slow with no real incentives or even funding to improve it but there’s certainly something to be said for decentralization.
I’m glad the instance I chose based on URL ended up being pretty good because sh.itjust.works.
I choose lemmy.world because it was top of the list and I had no idea of anything when I came over from Reddit back then
Some people reckon we’re a Nazi instance… shrug emoji.
I’m not sure why - but have read it a few times. If someone in the know could clue me in if there is actually some back lore to the claim I’d appreciate that.
First I’ve heard of it.
You are the first seemingly sane person from .ml I’ve seen
Thanks… unfortunately I’m well aware that’s a low bar lmao
When I first joined Lemmy 3.5 years ago I almost joined .ml because it was the dev’s instance. I’m glad I chose .ee instead.
I have a confession:
When I joined, I thought ML was for Machine Learning.
Same actually
I initially thought .ml was literally the TLD for the nation of Mali - so was super confused.
I mean, it is. But it’s one of the TLDs that allows wider use.
Only a few national TLDs require being related to the country, or at least being located in the country.
Who? Traffic seems fine to me.
You may be new enough not to have encountered this yet but our instance has a well earned reputation of being Soviet boot lickers. Be careful on .ml meme subs and stuff, you’ll catch a permaban for saying anything pro Ukraine or in any way interpretable as anti Russia
Oh…they know exactly what .ml is
-23% aggressive .ml tankies detected.
Remember to donate to Ukraine so they can do it again!
Alternatively, you could blockade the tanker about to offload 300,000 tons of Russian diesel in Wilmington NC
Every coin helps!
.ML traffic:
rare opportunity to refine blocklists
Russia is not using its own datacenters for fedi when they have unpaid western interns to do it for free.
They’re here. Not in the numbers reddit used to have, but they’re here. Occasionally we get a good one too. If you find yourself being argued with unreasonably, there’s a good chance that’s a russian troll. They have a scent.
My truck is to just never read replies ever.
Then I can never argue with a bot!
If I don’t naturally come across the post again then I just forget it ever happened. Like old forums!
They’ve taken over the Late Stage Capitalism community and have started banning comments that say voting against the GOP is a good thing.
They definitely have a playbook for infiltrating communities and taking them over. There’s a lot of subreddits on Reddit that are worker aligned but have questionable viewpoints.
I immediately went to check that “SaltyAmerican” guy that often gets in my “All” feed and latest post was week ago. 🗿
Nothing gives away a Russian troll posing as an American person like trying really hard to emphasize their “Americanness” - with those “as an American”/“we Americans”.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/22444072
Definitely not American if they use the west unironically
Who’s this guy? Sounds like a fun read
They had a lot of posts on “Late Stage Capitalism” community, and I suspect that community as a whole may probably be run by Russian trolls. Simply because of a contrast with other lefty communities - like you can have civil conversations in most places, and in there it’s just a perpetual hate boner machine, that just wants to get you upset and angry.
There’s another obnoxious troll that’s similar to yours that is so bad at it, I’m pretty sure he’s an american.
like persimmons or bad bo?
Smug cloud
can you give an example?
These are old and some of them on just their techniques, but it’s a good start.
- Astroturfing Information Megathread- revision 8 (old-reddit link)
- Link within previous thread and archived- “Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
- Russia and the Menace of Unreality-How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
- Russia is using the power of ‘Black PR’ to destroy political reputations and spread disinformation in the West
- The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias
- What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain-Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
- Political Misinformation Game: Harmony Square-it’s an actual game
- Max Fisher on How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains | Offline Podcast
- Amygdala hijack occurs when strong emotions “take over” the thinking part of your brain.
- Asch conformity experiments
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
- It’s My Right to Hold This Turd
- 5 studies about fact-checking you may have missed last month
- This Video Will Make You Angry
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983
Hope that helps!
Can confirm- they stopped sending me checks a while ago
The real way to end wealth inequality: send cheques to everyone who thinks america deserves the slightest criticism.
It wasn’t those kind of bots, more like the Google web crawlers.
Very visible on 4chan. Anything that would have been pro-Putin is instead just a blacked/NTR thread from India.
Someone check Lemmy.ml traffic
Traffic where?
Cloudflare services, there was a post about how their data showed a large drop in bot traffic after a Yandex datacenter was hit.
