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I don't understand.

Are you saying it's a bait and switch like Google, where they suck people in with a good product then enshittify it once they're hooked?

Yeah, I imagined basically exactly that happening and decided not to tell anyone about it, not yet anyway. Also, I don't want them to get death threats from Hexbear like I did...

Same, I haven't told a soul I use it despite being active here over a year. I still believe in it though (or just really hate the idea of accepting corporate social media).

I think they're paid to spread disinformation (or run LLMs that spread it) that makes "the West" look bad and their authoritarian leaders (CCP, Kremlin) look good.

So if someone mentions Tiananmen Square they delete it or lie about it, or say "what about Mk ultra," but not because they actually believe in anything other than getting paid.

Thanks! It's already happening.

Welcome to ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy, where nobody reads the article

I wonder how many good, reasonable people have checked out Lemmy and seen all the CCP/Kremlin propaganda then just left.

Yes good point, I suggest we deal with it by defederating hexbear and the .ml instances.

The Hexbear and .ml instances aren't really tankies/communists, IMHO. Some of them, sure, but mostly it's just a facade for their propaganda.

Sounds like they are out of control

You see, now that it's absolutely impossible for him to do anything at all, he may stop doing certain things

One less killing machine and a few less terrorists in Ukraine