Welcome! Watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances, lots of disinformation and propaganda
Welcome! Watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances, lots of disinformation and propaganda
They keep rambling on about jeans and beans even though you stopped contributing to the conversation several minutes ago…
Agreed there are real people. Apparently the term is “useful idiots,” kind of sad
More direct support. I think a large portion of the accounts on those three instances are bot/shill accounts run by the CCP and Kremlin. I suspect the CCP runs lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Not sure about Hexbear.
To be clear, I generally don’t have a problem with Marxists or communists. I think that’s a facade used to cover up the propaganda. No intelligent communist or Marxist would support either the Kremlin or CCP at this point.
The fediverse is a fantastic place for propagandists. There’s no central censor, absolutely no budget for countering propaganda.
KremlinGPT cranking that propaganda hog.
Its an intentional move by whatever authoritarian piece of shit propagandist runs the instance and its bots/shills.
People have started calling them out and those instances have lost most credibility, so they’re trying to bring legit instances down to their level and spread confusion.
not sure what to do about it
Defederation from Hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml would be a decent start, but since they have support from the Kremlin/CCP it’ll probably turn into ongoing whack-a-mole.
All corporate social media needs to die