Check this link for context, the whole evolution of the conversation is the particularly funny part:
https://ponder.cat/post/2054411/2336210
I also have no idea what they mean talking about Xinxiang (a city in Henan Province) instead of what they and I obviously meant, Xinjiang. It’s easy to write it down as a meaningless typo, but I’m a little bit surprised to see someone who is clearly pushing overt CCP propaganda making an “all those foreigner-letters are basically the same” Westerner mistake.
Maybe that’s a strong argument that they are an honest proponent of this stuff (as well as obviously not real educated about the basics of what they’re talking about), and not part of any CCP influence operation. I just thought it was interesting.
I read a report on how a lot of tiny fora, and other sites with comment functions, were getting barraged with russian bot traffic. They use web scrapers to pick up on sites that have comment functions, of any kind, and that tells the bot network to start automated posting there. Often it is so strong they effectively DDOS a lot of these personally run places. However, this account doesn’t feel like that. This leads me to believe one of the possibilities I previously suggested. It is a mod, it is someone with mental illness that, for whatever reason, was having a moment of clarity that one time, or even lemmy is being targeted. If it is targeted, that makes me think that russian prop-pushing organizations have so thoroughly saturated the internet, they now have to seek fringe spaces online, in order to keep quotas, or something like that, up.