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All the tankies hate Platner, and all the shill bot accounts do as well. Bot traffic is not just a Reddit problem, everyone knows traffic is shifting to lemmy. Everyone here take care, not every account that comments is doing so in good faith
Coming to the conclusion many of the most die hard tankies on lemmy are plants and I'm a leftist with some communist ideations (leaning a bit more toward anarcho socialism these days tho).
Platner could be a right wing plant, certainly despise his past, but the fact that the establishment is going after him like this tells me he's probably legit. Plus, he'd be replacing Susan Collins, it can't get much worse than her.
Great points. I'm still pretty firmly democratic socialist, but I at least try to have the sense that you and I are on the same side^tm^
If we don't form a popular front we lose. And over on the socialist side, I (syndicalist/mutualistish leftist) hold two left wing purity tests: equality/freedom and political pluralism.
Since you mentioned shills and bots, I've been wondering if some of the types always shitting on voting were but figured this place was too small to be botted.
No, bots and people pushing propaganda and divisive narratives are all over the internet, in all social media. It's one of the ways Russia and china are aiming to destabilize the western world and it's working really well
I was surprised that Lemmy allows bots. Terrible idea.
There are two types of things called bots:
The former is what some Lemmy instances "allow". The latter is a complex moderation problem that isn't really allowed so much as hard to differentiate from (dumb, wrong, whatever) organic responses. And with LLMs now may be able to be done algorithmically as well.
Not that easy to block them. Many of them are part of sophisticated overseas influence operations that may be using local proxies. A couple years ago it was easy to spot them, now it takes work. When you're dealing with chat traffic on this scale...it's a time-consuming job.
Meanwhile, your account is less than one day old.
This critique would make sense of they were actually pushing some sort of product or ideology.
I have seen no evidence to support these claims.
It's up to each instance admin team whether to allow bots (where they can identify them) and whether to defederate from instances that do allow them (again, where they can identify them)
It's up to each instance