AcidicBasicGlitch

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[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Russian propaganda has always been there it's just been tweaked over the years to match the audience. Reddit has exiled anyone that doesn't support Musk, so by default the audience is mainly far-right. And it has definitely gotten out of hand to such an extreme that most of reddit is just dead internet. Bot posts filled with one liner bot comments that rarely actually engage in a discussion about anything.

I just assume any content that pushes extreme divisiveness on issues and refuses to acknowledge any sort of logic or gray area is probably due to Russian bot swarms on most major platforms.

Before I left reddit for the final time, if there was a message that was clearly being suppressed, any attempts to talk about it would be met with the most irrational wall of resistance.

Like I tried to post on a sub for federal workers back in late Jan telling people they should be refusing illegal orders being given to them. It started to get some traction, and then suddenly it was just like a swarm of very irrationally angry comments and downvotes. Like a thread could be almost completely dead, with no activity in the last several hours and I would make a comment like that and get one or two upvotes and then suddenly within a minute it would be sitting at -15 downvotes.

Idk if a community already exists for this but I feel like we need a way to teach people how to spot bot activity the same way we teach people how to spot disinformation.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

She's got a work on her sales pitch. "Probably one of the greatest... Oh it's not for you, it's more of a Shelbyville idea..."

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you! Like I said I'm still figuring things out. The instance I joined says you can't post images until 40 days after joining. Is there an alternative way to do that?

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh it was in the ysk community on .world

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I guess it would be community specific. Just looking around for places to share stuff, but it seems like it fits in many ways with the topic of the community but also includes aspects that might be in violation of the rules.

I will try just asking individual communities

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I guess on a broad topic level the closest would be public health, but it's been so misrepresented it's also become an issue of politics and privatization of public information

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am still learning how to navigate everything but I guess mainly community based? I really would like to share literally anywhere I could that would be interested in learning about the information.

Basically I guess it would be most closely a topic of public health policy being greatly misrepresented.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I'm watching healthcare implode around me thanks to state level DOGE partnering with state auditors to make a proposed budget cut happen.

Monopoly chains of hospitals with CEOs that receive state funding are being investigated for misspending Medicare. Same hospital has cracked down on nurses attempts to unionize. Are the hospital CEOs losing any money?

Nope, but the few decent doctors left in the state are being treated like criminals for trying to give too many poor people access to state funded healthcare so definitely seems like an efficient way to cut all that pesky red tape

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a community for asking a question about the existence of other communities related to a specific topic?

I want to find out if anyone knows about any communities regarding a political topic, but the ask community rules state no politics.

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