I know they’ve always been on Lemmy, but it seems like the past few weeks it’s slowly increasing, making me want to just stay on beehaw /local. Showing up on more communities, even on instances that ban that type of trolling explicitly.

Anyone else notice this?

Note: When I’m saying Tankie here, I’m not referring to far leftists, socialists, anti-capitalists, etc. I’m talking about trolls that act leftist but their actual intent is to cause infighting and support authoritarian regimes. Sealioning, all that stuff.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A few days ago, a mildly critical comment of mine against Netanyahu was removed by the lemmy.world mods.

    I said something like, both Netanyahu and Hamas want this war. Not too controversial, I would think.

    It was in a thread on lemmy.ml

    Anyway, I ditched my lemmy.world account and made this alt my main.

    But yeah, the bots and propagandists have found lemmy, too. They seem to be focussing on the bigger instances.

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      8 months ago

      Damn .world mods going into other instances to police the comments of their own users.

      Fucked up.

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          The more I read their moderators comments the more I can’t help but feel similarly. Such a strong condescending tone, it’s like every comment has the clown emoji embedded into it.

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            I think the reality is much simpler, they’re run by people who see themselves as mainstream social media providers, just on the fediverse. And along with mastodon.world, they’re not wrong.

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      That would be removed for saying that hamas want the war not for criticism against bb. You can’t be even the slightest bit anti Palestine.