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And unfortunately lemmy.ml is getting more online traffic recently.

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[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That’s is a lot of words to hand wave away a reasonable expectation as you say “do your own research.”

Stated without evidence dismissed without evidence, etc.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's really easy to demonstrate. Ask them for an alternative to Harris/Trump and they'll run around in circles to not give you a candidate and then tell you voting doesn't work.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 months ago

A lot of people genuinely feel that way even if I think they’re wrong and it’s unproductive

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’d like to apologize that you felt my response was dismissive. I certainly did not intend to make anybody feel that way. I didn’t have any specific examples to give, so I approached it from an anecdotal point of view based on my personal experiences.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate that and I could definitely do with less snark in my comments. That being said accusing the CCP of astroturfing lemmy instance at scale is a serious claim and it needs real evidence.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

If it means anything to you, my responses were not meant as accusations or attacks. Merely observations of the things I’ve personally seen. But I can appreciate your view of things, and I respect that you may disagree.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it matter who is doing it? Social media is rife with propaganda ever since r/the_donald was such a successful operation.

There are no volunteers that respond as quickly and consistently as r/t_d mods did. Anything counter to the narrative would be removed within seconds, at any time of day

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The problem pre-dated the_donald and we aren’t debating if who is doing it matters/if it’s happening. You’re completely reframing this discussion into something I didn’t say and ignoring the initial claim I took issue with. It has nothing to do with the original discussion.