Lemmy has it’s share of trolls, but we also have our share of russian propaganda trying to influence our election. This specific moderator of a very large Lemmy community (LateStageCapitalism) has been posting “democrats are actually the fascists!” memes, while banning/censoring everyone who speaks out in favor of the very people attempting to thwart the literal fascist regime in power right now.
Alright, this is just turning into a mud-slinging festival and I have other things to do today rather than babysit my mod reports. I’m shutting this down. Relax, you lot.
https://reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/ is a great example of Russian propaganda. They claim they post “both sides” but ban you for pointing out that every post there supports Russia and denounces Ukraine.
In case anyone wanted an example.
This is what these pieces of shit are doing. And to add, they remove everything they disagree with, despise it not violating their rules. It’s a psyop communist that needs to be banned.
I’m all about free speech, but abusing the rules of the instance to silence others is not free speech. They’re just a hate group at this point.
they remove everything they disagree with, despise it not violating their rules.
The rules you broke are literally listed.
communist that needs to be banned.
Is the concept of hypocrisy just completely dead at this point?
Yeah I had two of these posts in a row pop up on my all feed, by the same user on the same instance. I said “putting in overtime a month before the election, I see.”
Not surprising. They took over the Reddit sub over ten years ago.
Yeah I got a comment deleted from there which was about not letting Trump win and they were like “See Rules 3 and 4 liberalism is not allowed” or something to that effect
Listen I’m sick of the feckless democrats as well; but if the only options are them or the fascists I’m not fucking voting for the fascists
The next two elections, these mid-terms and the next presidential election, are probably the most important in our young nations history. We can absolutely still make a difference through voting, voter outreach, and community organizing. Any doomer posts designed to dissuade action and voting just screams of the same interference we’ve come to expect from russia and their allies.
I won’t turn a blind eye while my beloved Lemmy becomes inundated with power-abusing trolls trying to quash dissent to their lame efforts at manipulation.
For now, being banned from that instance is a badge of honor and intelligence. Congrats!
Lemmy is a big propaganda outlet for Russia. I’ve been banned from hexbear and .ml for pointing out the obvious bullshit. They even upvoted me after I congratulated them on Trump’s second term.
Boycott such communities.
Gotta love their sidebar and their mods. No “Lessor” evil rhetoric… On a post specifically about voting for the lesser evil.
Yeah, it’s a fucking joke sub run by trolls and clowns. Real shame because late stage capitalism is definitely something we’re up against and should call attention to on the regular.
As always, the best solution is to create a new LateStageCapitalism community on another instance with a moderation policy that better matches your expectations (not to discourage PSAs like this, just like, as a next step).
I second this. And im also banned from that community because I said some post was nonsense and explained the difference between socialism and capitalism and that’s how that went.
There are plenty of things to discuss under the topic of late stage capitalism. So just make a new community for it. I’ll subscribe.
Nose goes 👉👃
It’s disgusting how tankies dunk on the No Kings protests.
And then go “how come the Americans aren’t doing anything”
Listen we’re trying not to get drone strikes
Our government will drone strike us. They will blame Obama because he did it first, which was fucked up but that doesn’t mean it’s ok now. But have you seen the shitbags running this place? They just fire into cars with kids. Cars 4 Kids used to just funnel money to West Bank settlers, now Kars are definitely not for kids.
Well thus far they’ve been largely performative
Yeah totally, as compared to the authoritarian communist movement in the USA, which is never performative, but rather large, influential, and about to defeat the fascists
You made me shoot iced tea through my nose.
Fuck off, tankie
In what reality would someone think that deleting every top level comment that obviously disagrees with the post is a good look…on top of the post being “Let’s not vote and let all the people who do vote decide who runs everything. That’ll show 'em!”
LSC was bonkers idiotic on reddit, its no different here.
Blocked the mod this afternoon, guess that’ll take care of most of the community’s posts, too. It’s obvious anti voting propaganda, and dissenting opinions are disallowed.
I’ll say this, I won’t vote for a neo-liberal president again and the amount of push back I get for that despite my circumstances shows there’s no real divergence there.
They were active during the 2024 election too
It’s crazy that they are allowed alt accounts on. World and to run propaganda communities.
what evidence do you have that they have any alt accounts?
The have the same name and post about the same topics they arent hiding it. The reason they switched is likely because their more extreme instance was defederated for that exact behaviour
the Mastodon account is their oldest, and the .world account is second oldest. the newest account is the .ml account.
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