Fediverse vs Disinformation
Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
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Okay, so I feel partly guilty because my pov has been that I want to poke at what I think is hivemind behavior and take on devils advocate perspectives. I don’t think it’s worth it if literal nazis feel like they have a place to comment here. I hate it when there are posts that go unchallenged while advocating for clearly disingenuous and misstated opinions. But yeah, I think I’ll just block out the Marxist political content instead.
Bro... Take a look at yourself.
When you're on the same side of Nazis and and they feel like they have a welcoming place with you and your ideas, doesn't that tell you maybe what you're doing is not ideal?
You're not simply playing "devil's advocate". You're enabling fascist, Nazis and other bigots because in your efforts to "fight Marxism" (whatever that means), you're growing more and more extreme towards the right.
And is that really the road you want to take?
It seems like your answer to that question is "no". So why don't you take a moment to step back and ask yourself if to you it's worth being on the same side of Nazis.
But they don't go unchallenged. You are being disingenuous here.
I saw your profile, and all your rebuttals at anything remotely Marxist has very often been commented on by fellow Marxists. You either stopped replying when you didn't know what to say. Or their answers were just dismissed by you, without providing any legitimate counter arguments.
Do that then. I'd rather you just blocked various accounts and communities rather than continuing down the road you're in.
I've seen plenty of people get sucked into the far right pipeline because a Marxist was too mean once or because they didn't agree with the left mentality.
You can of course be another of those people. And additionally, you can of course disagree with left ideas/opinions as well.
But if you're feeling any remorse about being on the same side of Nazi users, I would invite you to ask yourself why are you truly being so passionately against the left that you're willing to align your ideas and worldviews with those of Nazis.
Best of luck to you!
Edit: You don't have to answer my comment either if you don't want to. I just wanted to share my own opinion and an invitation to stop and truly reflect on what's important to you.
You’re right, it’s not worth it
I stopped responding because I got banned 🤷♀️
You got banned 12 hours ago from comics.ml for exactly 6 days. And you were temporarily banned because you kept being troll-y and not engaging in good fate. You were laughing at the people downvoting you, telling everyone that they didn't understand anything they were saying and that only you were the one who truly knew what they were talking about. That is troll behavior. Period.
While 8 days ago you were banned from blahaj.zone because your views got you labeled as bigot. You might say you are not, but what is the difference if at the end of the day you just happen to keep saying the same things that other bigots say? In the eyes of any outsider, you're just another bigot.
Finally, let's get something straight: I am not here to convince you of what you did. Nor I wish to debate about whether or not what you did was correct, the mods actions justified or anything else like that.
I am simply telling you, as an outsider, that your actions are mirroring the same actions of those that eventually started hanging out with fascists and Nazis because they alienated everyone else in their blind reactions and hate.
What you do with this information is entirely up to you, my friend.
There will be no amount of words that I can say that could convince you of that unless you think that yourself.
I think you folks are biased, and that’s why I don’t care about the bans.
And? You're acting again as if you were the only neutral person in the world. Everyone has bias. You have (far) right wing bias. It's about being aware of the bias and knowing not to be as biased when making decisions that matters.
Decisions like whether or not you want to be on the side of Nazis, for example.
And that's what I meant with "you're debating in bad faith".
I'm writing long paragraphs with specific points to address. You are only writing 2 shitty lines that don't even address my points.
2 lines that openly contradict each other too. You cannot say at first "but they banned me 🤷♀️" and then immediately "but I actually don't care about the ban".
Talk to me about having biases again?
This is the last thing I'll write to you by the way. I value my time too much to waste it writing comments to rightwing trolls who are unwilling to have an actual conversation and be critical of themselves.
I will block you as well if necessary because I don't want to have people in my feed who repeat Nazi and transphobic talking points, or who are against DEI and CRT.
Please block me.
Happily!
And thank you for proving that all your arguments were just absolute bullshit and you are, in fact, just another rightwing troll
Don't worry. The troll is competent and the org doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with this. To all that may see this: defederation should be on the table