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Indians are present in big numbers on reddit and other websites due to how populated India is, how english is popular there and that they aren't contained in national platforms like their chinese neighbors. It makes them noticeable for bigots to single them out and target. Just because they want someone to hate and laugh at to up their self-esteem.
riiiight it's not like they use their population to push lies, distort the truth and not push their extreme caste hatred elsewhere.
it's actually the opposite. one indian guy pushes a lie that puts india in a better light and almost every indian votes the post or comment to the top. anyone pointing out the truth is buried by the nationalistic brigade.
Racism is bad, using the ignorant populace to push lies is bad too.
Do you think the government itself is involved here, or is it just volunteers? Did it occur to fediverse? I think here you are talking about reddit, right?
I'm not Indian and all I've seen lately are news about how bad their ecological and ethnic situations under Modi are. I've heard of something named like r/chodi, but mostly from drama write-ups. What's the scale of brigading we are talking about?