For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] is the result of a reddit sub ban of a bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty terrible stuff! The linked thread is full of their insane ramblings and denialism Edit: I seem to have been blocked from commenting, all my replies are timing out now. But I wanted to say that I don’t intend to make this post as an “anti-lemmy” thing, I think the truth should burn brightly in the sunlight. We should try to continue to grow Lemmy (especially since we’re the largest reddit clone) while calling out their propaganda and hidden motive. Edit2: turns out I can comment, I just can’t reply to kbin user comments from my instance. Just spins indefinitely.

lol ... lmao even

  • SnAgCu [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    We’ve been in a post-truth era now for a number of years. There’s nothing that can be done. China has over a billion people. If they want propaganda bots to saturate the internet, they got it. Just keep promoting internet safety, critical media thinking skills, and real historical facts.

    The lack of self-awareness and ironically, critical thinking skills on display in those comments is so tragic.

    "If the Chinese media says something, don't believe it! The American media told me that."