this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I defederated lemmy.world because I don't feel like hosting and re transmitting US propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It is kinda surprising how much obvious propaganda makes it onto Lemmy, for example those memes that aren't really memes as much as "haha this opinion wrong"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lemmy itself is largely made up of Communists, Anarchists, and liberals fleeing Reddit.

As a consequence, there's a lot of Communist agit-prop, and a lot of reflective panic on the hands of liberals.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The cycle of a specific comm on world

we only allow memes here

points out posts that aren't memes

stop asking us to follow our rules

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a very political place, even compared to Reddit where there's a shitload of politics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think it's just as much a hivemind if not moreso than Reddit. Also, probably way easier to make bots for too