• 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

    • 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.

    • 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.