Has anyone else noticed this, across the fediverse, Lemmy specifically. A lot of new users, but also a lot of first posts that are very inflammatory/rage baity.

Do we have another legit influx of new users? Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot? Or maybe I’m imagining it.

        • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          34·
          1 month ago

          Degenerate tankies white washing a genocide being commited by a country that is no way communist is not “theory and history.”

          And even “historical” discussion is usually along the lines of “it’s a good thing that Stalin collaborated with the Nazis and split up Europe!” or "Not wanting to have you culture exterminate by the russians is Nazism!

          Keep in mind this is not my first day on Threadiverse! Playing dumb is not going to work with me.

            • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              1 month ago

              Get fucked tankie roach!

              You don’t speak Ukrainian (or russian) and you’ve never been to eastern Ukraine (or any part of Ukraine).

              So don’t play dumb with me, you stupid degenerate!

                • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  1 month ago

                  Are you dumb? Why in god’s name do you think I would want to talk to you?

                  You know nothing about Ukraine, Donbas or even probably Russia. You wouldn’t be able to name 3 basic historical facts about Donbas if your life depended on it.

                  Hope you end up like Donbas Cowboy, Russell Bentley.

                  Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.

                  According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.

                  Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.

                  A good end for a tankie, eh? Imagine what was going through his mind as his fellow russians were torturing him? At least he realized the error of his ways (even for a very short moment).

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      22·
      1 month ago

      So people are just pretending that astroturfing by foreign nations isn’t real now? Cool.

      • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlBanned from communityEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        I don’t really have an opinion about whether “astroturfing by foreign nations” is widespread on the internet overall. I will note that we have to take the word of intelligence agencies and big tech companies as the only evidence in the public record that it’s happening.

        What I am saying is that here on the fediverse, the people who throw around that accusation are childish and ill-informed every time.

        Basically, these people are saying that they can’t even imagine the possibility of people believing differently than the national media narrative of their home country, which is a pretty embarrassing self-own if you ask me.