• cogman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, I think I’ve noticed that there is a much lower presence of right wing ideas on lemmy in general. My conspiracy is that is because a large amount of right wing sentiments are coming from fake to try and make it look like the sentiment is there. There is clear evidence this has happened with Russia in the 2016 election and the Rand Paul sentiment that preceded it.

    I think you don’t see that on lemmy because it’s not a popular platform ATM so opinions tend to be a little more genuine.

    4chan is probably the counter example to my belief.

    • Gullible@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My comment was caught in the outage, so forgive me for paraphrasing. 4chan used to be just as progressive as we are here, before they poe’s law’d themselves into a nazi haven. Upside, their fall created a broad online understanding of radicalization methods, which I’ve found several people consistently using here, like disillusionment and appeals to open information sharing. No, telling nazis to leave isn’t censorship, rando 1 through 8. Anyway, that’s all to say that they’re probing for opportunities to do the same thing here, and, like you, I can only wonder if it’s actual bigots or state actors.