Comment on Are you people all bots?

Forester@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think you overestimate the importance of the Threadiverse to the movers and shakers in geopolitics. Like the Lemmy developers are themselves Marxist-Leninists, Marxist-Leninists were some of the first people to use the platform, and Marxist-Leninists talk a lot, so it’s absolutely not shocking that human Marxist-Leninists have an outsized influence on this platform.

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  • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If non ML instances introduced a feature to hide all comments below -3 by default, the tankies would disappear faster than Khamenei disappears protestors.

    I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent.

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    • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seems more like a client-side feature to me. Let people hide comments below -3 by default.

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    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent (same goes for most left-wing spaces)

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  • phtheven@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t know that lemmy has ML roots, that explains a lot. However, it is also true that the auth-left has access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties do not, as well as a ideological agenda which could in theory be more amenable to methods of coercive control.

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    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      However, it is also true that the auth-left has access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties do not

      Nah they’re just as poor and miserable as everyone else. No one’s getting paid to shitpost on Lemmy.

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