Comment on Lemmy is the best social media

• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Aee you suggesting people on Lemmy.ml are paid by the Chinese government to spread propagands?

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Some of them yes, absolutely.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Do you have any source for that? I would be curious to see.

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      • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Let me ask friend in the CCP to send some of their files over for you to look at, it’s all very open and well documented.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think, they are only paid indirectly in that the money are spent on propaganda to make them act like this

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s a single instance, they can be blocked and avoided. The FOSS community is way more resiliant to enshittification.

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I blocked Hexbear and they made accounts on lemmy.ml. if I block lemmy.ml they’ll just make accounts somewhere else. We need to collectively become aware of the problem and deal with it together.

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  • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not really, their users make alts everywhere else too. It’s also quite easy just to keep setting up new instances too.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Deal with them just like regular trolls. You shouldn’t be like the Muskrat cultists who think content moderation is useless and thus should be given up on. I understand, I suffered from activism burnout on the regular (one was right in the middle of an election campaign), but one should not give up easily.

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      • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s not at all what I am saying. I am saying it’s easier to do moderation on more centralised platforms like Reddit, because moderators simply have more power and more tools there. The flip side of that being that it makes it easier for moderators and admins to abuse and ban people without recourse. I am not saying moderation is pointless at all, just that it’s easier with one platform than the other. There are pros and cons to both models.

        I would argue being open source and decentralised are major advantages of Lemmy and are more than sufficient to justify its existence. Just that it also isn’t perfect either. There are always trade-offs to be made when designing a platform, and that’s something you should always bear in mind.

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