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I know right! How come there are so, so many people defending China here? I thought they were the minority. Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.
It might be worth keeping in mind that Reddit has, for several years now, biased its moderation policy against the sort of voices who would object to OP, creating a neoliberal echochamber across most of the website.
If you can't cope with people with different political beliefs to you being allowed to post, maybe you should go back to reddit.
I'm fine with people with different opinions than my own posting. It's just the number of such people surprises me.
ps. I will not go back to reddit
No you just brought the
with you
You had it explained where they came from, and just ignored it so you could continue with your paranoid conspiracy theory.
Why not go back to reddit? You'll like it there, they also have the extreme solipsism to think anyone who disagrees with them is a paid foreigner
I don't even have a theory.
Clearly
I never had a "paranoid conspiracy theory" to begin with.
Alright, it just really seemed like you were agreeing with the 'paid Chinese bots' guy.
It’s a shock to find out that the world view instilled in you as common and sensical is neither.
It’s tough to face up to that conditioning, but you can do it if you try, and if you don’t take it personally. It’s not your fault you were filled with imperialist lies, but it will be your fault if you don’t reflect
you left a Astro Turfed , hardcore censored Faschist Imperialistic Place that spends its time telling you US lies about its enemies .. things are Diffrent when you leave your hole , because You changed location , you now meet "non Rediitors" and Communist and all else thats forbidden on Reddit... , thereby you are Accuring an new Perspective ..
If its Scary for you then you need to run back where you came from .. where the Yellow Peril rules ..
gee are you a bot
ok seems like you're a bot
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This is such a good account
I wonder if it's worth making an actual bot for that so the person doesn't have to do the bit manually?
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There'd be no way to tell when to use it
Maybe DM the bot with a link to a post/comment?
I hate fox news
then why do you sound identical to their viewership?
The issue is there are a much higher percentage here because brigading wasn't allowed on reddit so they'd be banned for this type of activity. They come here and can do what they want, which is fine as long as it doesn't hurt other people doing what they want, which in this case is arguably happening because it clutters the comments with the same thing repeated over and over, and they are organized so it's all up voted. This doesn't make them the majority opinion though. It makes them the organized opinion. They are not the majority by any means, but they will make sure to come to China's defence whenever it's mentioned, where others won't bother.
Brigading was very much allowed on Reddit as long as it didn’t push the neoliberal imperialist status quo. Since the biggest leftist subs were banned or quarantined the shitheap of a website has seen an unceasing drumbeat of “China bad” and Cold War 2.0 propaganda, with any dissenting opinion piled on and follows across subs and threads. Often for weeks.
It was explicitly not allowed. You can argue about enforcement if you want, but it wasn't allowed.
Rules only exist to the extent they are enforced. Words aren't magical. Only the directed use of power gives rules reality, everything else is just so much pablum.
federating
Brigading is when you organize to send people to a specific post/comment.
Federating is different groups organizing together to share functionality.
They are not the same thing and federation has nothing to do with what is being discussed.
this thread is at the top of active. no one needs to organize anything for lots of people from hexbear to see it.
lying is when you make things up on the internet. show some evidence for this claim.
Honey the only organization that's bringing us here is sort by activity
Are you acting dumb on purpose?
Lol, just making shit up now.
Yeah! It's kind of sketchy how most hexbear.net comments here have >10 upvotes
edit: it's also sketchy that over 95% of comments on this post are from hexbear.net, while on the average Lemmy post (not on lemmy.world) there would only be less than 20%
It's actually quite easy to achieve, simply have better opinions
Its on account of those being the only good posts.
Our instance makes us literally incapable of downvoting you and yet look what we've achieved
Edit your username to have pronouns if you want us to upvote you
It may be hard to fathom for someone who's so used to Reddit, but Hexbear users really do have a deep love for each other. Also we are really really ridiculously online.
This is kind of analogous to the "CCP is falsifying all of its own data" allegation. You can cling to some sort of dogmatic narrative like Hexbear inflating its stats à la r/the_donald, that's exceedingly difficult to prove or draw anything conclusive from, or you can take a close look at it and see the reality that lines up with the stats.
I think it's going to be up to the users to run them out.