honestly idk why dbzero isn’t part of the tankie triad. They have just as many insane takes and they’re crawling with either tankie alts or sympathizers who think they deserve to consume other people’s work for free. It’s hell because unlike the triad, no one seems to really defederate from them despite their unapologetically alt-left views.

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Yeah, okay. Totally not gonna be surprised when I see you get posted to !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

EDIT: Also that’s a curious reaction to getting called out. All you had to say was “I’m not a tankie, I’m sorry for using their rhetoric” and this whole thing would’ve been cleared up.

I’ve had the same experience. Hexbear won’t accept any nuance when it comes to Palestine or homeless people.

So what? At least they’re not tankies.

What a hexbear style of argumentation. Nice alt LOL. You’re telling me Russia and China should be allowed to prosecute anyone?

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Is there any way to set one up that protects the anonymity of the people involved (where even the organizers don’t know each other’s real names) for opsec purposes?

you will probably stop seeing much of that if you block users that post a lot to fediverselore and meanwhileongrad. They’re like the /r/subredditdrama of lemmy

confused by exactly how badly the people there were going at each others throats in the comments

I’m reading that thread and I don’t see anyone being aggressive.

someone there also mentioned Nixonland which actually is a good book to understand the circumstances of era

Nosferatu says Dracula has gone too far

fr these posts are just chum for wannabe curators who think they’re responsible for safeguarding the fediverse from some axis of evil

if you can’t handle political content then just excluding worldnews from your feed should be enough

u single?

when in Rome

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the article you’re talking about reads like a case of “our holy narrative-correcting taskforce vs their pagan misinformation agents”

[bad actors] put in the effort to build reputation…, mixing legitimate page edits with the more politically sensitive ones

through subtle changes like casting doubt on the objectivity of pro-Western accounts

they also mention adding links from Russian state-owned news, but the article doesn’t indicate that those things happen in the same incidents though mentioning it in the same sentence is certainly an attempt to conflate them. It’s one thing to remove insufficiently reliable sources, correcting misrepresented facts, and banning the wreckers that consistently produce it, but I think there is an issue if validly-sourced edits are being censored by “bias adjusters” (NPOV purposes withstanding) just because the content is deemed to have been written by a suspected bad actor.

everybody click your wrongthink ⬇️ button, quick!

you should go ask them