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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I always wonder if Russia would collapse, if suddenly a lot of the disinfo & hate on various online media would become noticeably quieter.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As I recall there was a period a couple years back where Russia was cut off from the greater internet and a lot of interesting things got quieter, including r/conservative on Reddit.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, where would Lemmy be without all the communist ~~propaganda~~ memes?

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

communist propaganda

It's like you know that these are words, and they're words that you've seen people put together in the past, but you have no idea what they mean.

Where is anyone talking about communism? Where is the propaganda? What the fuck are you even talking about??

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Where is anyone talking about communism?

Lemmygrad.ml, I assume? I dunno if it's "propaganda," though, mainly because I haven't really seen much from that instance. It isn't defederated or anything; it just apparently isn't popular enough to show up in Active/Hot/Top.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I see a lot of communism good/capitalism bad meme content in lemmy.ml in general. Now I'm really not against communism and I absolutely see the negative effects of western society's brand of unregulated late stage capitalism, but political meme content in general is just entirely devoid of all nuance to the point where people are seriously dropping silly statements like "capitalism is the sole contributor to climate change", as if if you could turn off capitalism climate change would just stop lol. It's straight up propaganda.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That and conveniently ignoring any negatives involving China/Russia.

There are a few users on Lemmy.ml who I see all over the place. Half their posts will just be funny "lol capitalism sucks, amirite?" memes and the other half will be "Look at how China is ushering the world into a golden age of social and economic progress" or "When will the west acknowledge Ukraine's Nazi problem?"

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're on different instances, bet our top day looks very different.

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That partially already happened at the start of the war. There was a massive "brain drain" among the higher educated part of society, which did include a bunch of hackers. Why live inside russia these days when you can move elsewhere and get paid better?

[–] marmo7ade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exposing the crimes of the NSA is one reason.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that is so fucking sick.

Signal FTW and long live Snowden!