I do think federation mitigates that problem somewhat. There are blocks between servers but its harder to exile users from posting on a third space that’s not blocked.
Were you here for US election season? Because there were piles of astroturf comments pushing a don’t vote narrative, with activity vaguely correlated around Moscow’s time zone. And they all shut up and disappeared right after the election.
And you could tell the difference between the psyop trolls and the genuine tankies, because the tankies are still here doing their tankie stuff.
Its like a microcosm of US media in general.
Lemmy has that same problem, maybe even worse since our user base is way smaller
I do think federation mitigates that problem somewhat. There are blocks between servers but its harder to exile users from posting on a third space that’s not blocked.
No because almost all the accounts here are people and it is unlikely there ate many psy-ops going on here unlike Reddit.
Were you here for US election season? Because there were piles of astroturf comments pushing a don’t vote narrative, with activity vaguely correlated around Moscow’s time zone. And they all shut up and disappeared right after the election.
And you could tell the difference between the psyop trolls and the genuine tankies, because the tankies are still here doing their tankie stuff.