• Maeve@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    I welcome diversity of opinion. I may accidentally learn something. If I find a poster or instance I find particularly distasteful, I can block them. No need to censor unless it’s human trafficking, CSA., gore, and especially the American exceptionalist vote blue/maga stuff.

    I’m not particularly into right or left wing authoritarianism, but I enjoy learning something beyond typical American propaganda.

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      7 months ago

      This isn’t about diversity of opinion. I will happily talk to a tankie and explain why I think they are wrong, unless they’re a toxic asshole in which case I will simply point out that fact. The problem is when tankies get in charge of forums they behave like toxic assholes, and then yeah, I think we should ditch that forum.

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        7 months ago

        What’s stopping you from blocking a particular instance? Why do you want to block it from me?

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          Nobody is blocking you from it. You can go find an instance that doesn’t defederate. You can make an account with them. Literally nobody is stopping you.

          If the admins of your instance agree it should be defederated and you disagree, then I guess that instance isn’t a good fit for you.

          This isn’t like… a difficult concept, so I have to ask what it is about it that you’re struggling with.

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              7 months ago

              If you can’t even be bothered to write a coherent sentence then I have to say I’m not too concerned about what you have to say.

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                  7 months ago

                  Oh wow… vote manipulation how? Like using alts or something else? How do you detect this? I am so curious now.

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                    no clue of how. i just noticed a suspiciously symmetrical jump in the numbers and i reported it off a hunch. i wasn’t at all sure until my admin dm’d me to confirm i was right (i assume admins can see the IDs and times of votes and triangulate off that but that’s just a guess)

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think you understand just how persistent these people can be, Internet Communist is their personality. The last time I looked, all their memes were thinly veiled jabs at capitalism, or the US, or about their politics in some way, they find a way to shoehorn it into every single conversation.

      They’re also in support of almost everything Russia does, including invading their neighbours, and opposed to everything the US does.

      They’re awful, they’re abrasive, and they get everywhere.

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        7 months ago

        Internet Communist is their personality

        Not really, it’s their facade. They’re not actually communists, it’s just a mask they use to spread CCP and Kremlin propaganda. Plus their paid to do it, they’re not authentic.