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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Do you think actual sponsored accounts/bots or just indoctrinated people?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

100% just indoctrinated people, lemmy is too small to catch anyone's attention.

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

You tend to have very extreme views, which sometimes get heavily downvoted. It’s convenient for you to blame that on “American indoctrination.”

And as you say, Lemmy is too small. So maybe it’s just that a lot of people here do not agree with your views.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even for people, who are not Leninist/Stalinist or similar, it is noticeable.

From my perspective (being not from the US) us-american arrogance is very present on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

us-american arrogance is very present ~~on lemmy~~ literally everywhere.

ftfy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Both, but there was definitely blatant astroturfing after Biden withdrew and Kamala became the nominee.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think we just have a surprising amount of political staffers in Lemmy. The bulk does seem to be wealthy people living in suburbs. Look at how the biggest groups are people self hosting thousands and thousands of dollars of equipment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Surprising amount of political staffers... As if that is a class of people. Those people are normies and not tech savvy. They're all workaholics too so most of them probably only used LinkedIn for social media.

Your idea that people who self-host somehow equals political staffers is just asinine. There's literally no overlap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i really doubt any major organizations are paying for bots, at least not on lemmy. we're just not big enough methinks
if there are any it's probably a smaller operation done by a few people max.

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

the methamphetamine epidemic has hit the squid population hard