Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors. What do you think?

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    2 months ago

    You can safely assume that anything on .ml or lemmygrad is. Just don’t subscribe to them. I can give you a block list that encompasses most of the ones who don’t stay nicely in .ml land. We should have shareable block lists like BlueSky to get new users up and running quickly. I hope that PieFed eventually does some stuff like this.

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    2 months ago

    Treat it like a troll post. Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar block them.

    This goes for all propaganda not just the stuff you are against.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      That assumes you accurately define propaganda. I think we’ve all faced half baked allegations as such, and had people vote with the accuser, you want everyone to be seperated from each other on here because they misunderstood a point, or understood different facts, or because they are a dumbass on a different topic?

      Just downvote, and move on, unless the person is stalking you, looking at you hexrat, or whatever fucking mammal.

      • DSN9@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 months ago

        This was true until I realized they’re all over. Anything even remotely pertaining to China is flooded with the Chinese state actors reply guys and bots. In effect, using the protocols strength against itself. Is the protocol itself even able to be banned in China? Are they seriously active on here just to push their bullshit China marketing even harder. They’ve gone all out the last five years.

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          2 months ago

          Anything even remotely pertaining to China is flooded with the Chinese state actors reply guys and bots.

          • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            Is the hexbort here in the room with us right now? There’s a fancy saying my people have, if you’re smelling dog shit everywhere you go, look under your own shoe.

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              2 months ago

              Great anecdote comrade. We have sayong, if you do not think good, do not think much. Now if you will excuse me trollsky.

    • DSN9@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      Entire subs and communities, and servers are Chinese state actors. I wish we could daylight this bullshit, a single serving page with a method for rankings subs, servers with biases?

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          2 months ago

          hi i am goat.

          you can ask me any questions you have about my community or my views. My opinion on I/P is that Israel should leave Palestine alone, and Palestine should leave Israel alone. They both have the right to exist.

          you’d also be hard-pressed to ever get proof from tankies. They’re MAGA, they don’t operate on proof, only feelings.

          • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org
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            2 months ago

            I know, all good. I hadn’t really time back then, otherwise I would have been way more direct with those pathetic losers.

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                2 months ago

                No prob. But I was a bit surprised to see them outside of their safespaces, with non-ml usernames. I guess they are getting tired of getting their instances blocked.

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                  2 months ago

                  They only venture outside their safespaces when they’ve got support. You’ll never see a lone Tankie venturing outside of it.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    There are a lot of people supportive of the PRC, both because the US Empire is declining and the PRC is positioned as an alternative to the US Empire’s naked terrorism, and because Lemmy has a lot of communists. Lemmy has a lot of communists because the lead developers are communists, FOSS attracts communists, and because as Reddit bans communist communities they are often suggested to come here.

    There’s absolutely no credible evidence of CPC interference in Lemmy, this is a normal thing to happen to a FOSS alternative to Reddit.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This seems right. Personally I’m not sure I could roll my eyes harder at the fact that so many people in 2026 are so ignorant as to be prepared to call themselves “communists” - after all the famines, the purges, the 40 years in which much of Europe was struggling to escape (literally) from communism… And then I saw that you, too, call yourself a communist! So I guess I’ll stop there.

      Except to recommend you the Ones and Tooze podcast, in which the brilliant host (an ex-communist) recently did a whole series, in great and illuminating detail, on the various communist thinkers. Which I listened to… dutifully.

      • DSN9@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 months ago

        Their idol Mao killed approx 160 million humans.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          Do you have a source on that? Even if you include landlords killed by the peasantry during land reform, all of the deaths by unintentional famine, and the excesses of the cultural revolution as deliberately killed by Mao, the numbers accepted by Historians are nowhere close to 160 million. This is such a fantastical number that even the famously debunked Black Book of Communism doesn’t go over 100 million, and that was including the entire history of the soviet union as well as PRC. The Black Book of Communism famously included both non-births as deaths, and Nazis killed by the Red Army as “victims of communism.”

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          Damn, out jerking the black book of communism by an order of magnitude. You’re really going for it