• flashgnash
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      2 months ago

      It is kinda surprising how much obvious propaganda makes it onto Lemmy, for example those memes that aren’t really memes as much as “haha this opinion wrong”

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        Lemmy itself is largely made up of Communists, Anarchists, and liberals fleeing Reddit.

        As a consequence, there’s a lot of Communist agit-prop, and a lot of reflective panic on the hands of liberals.

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        The cycle of a specific comm on world

        we only allow memes here

        points out posts that aren’t memes

        stop asking us to follow our rules

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        This is a very political place, even compared to Reddit where there’s a shitload of politics

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          I think it’s just as much a hivemind if not moreso than Reddit. Also, probably way easier to make bots for too