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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm a real person downvoting you because you're delusional. This is a massively wide concern reflected in polls and being expressed by Democratic cheerleaders like Pod Save America. I have a hard time believing any of you live in a world so insulated that you think this is just trolls and media manipulation.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only polls that matter are Biden vs Trump, and those haven't really changed post-debate.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Sentiment polls absolutely do matter when the question is whether the sentiment is only coming from trolls and biased media.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know Finland isn't exactly friendly with Russia, but the fact that you argue this from an instance run by someone a hop and a skip from Moscow is a beautiful irony...

All trolls, no, but given the notorious prevalence of media manipulation seen out of the region it's a given that some not insignificant portion of the loudest voices are here looking to cause trouble.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, do you actually think everyone on a Finnish instance is from Finland? That's really really stupid.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've had people think since my mastodon account ends in todon.eu they think I'm like a secret agent, but too stupid to notice that the .eu would give me away. It's Qanon-level of thinking, of how there's secret clues everywhere that only they can see but the shadow cabal left them there for the truthers to find.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

All the best Russian influence agents join servers that are in close proximity to their office. I moved from lemmy.world to sopuli after .world's performance was unreliable because they seemed to have a reasonable block list and were in the goldilocks zone of neither too big nor too small. And my mastodon account is hosted on an EU server because I don't think the US has good data privacy rules. Turns out internet services still work when it's overnight in their home time zone.