• goatMEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    bruh there ain’t no paid shills on lemmy. there is little monetary or propagandist value in small websites. Really wish people (from both tankies and here) would stop saying this stupid shit

    • [email protected]English
      2·
      1 year ago

      There are factually propagandists seeding atrocious ideas in nearly all communities, especially during and after breakaways like 4 months ago. Given the use of AI and scripting, and not to mention the nearly complete absence of countermeasures for either one on a relatively naive space like lemmy, a handful of people are definitely fomenting divisiveness. Subtle white supremacists, surreptitious state actors, website advertisers etc…

      Tl;dr: I’ve personally found a few sprinkled about.

      • goatMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Can you link any of these?

        • [email protected]English
          1·
          1 year ago

          About half of the accounts visible from this link. No clue whether they’re site advertisers or what, but they copy and paste identical threads across multiple social media platforms and steal twitter comments. It’s a pretty neat strategy, until you learn that it’s bog standard. Just the ones I noticed most recently, I usually don’t pay them any mind past determining their intent to spread divisiveness.

          • goatMEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Oh, I know those guys. They aren’t being paid tho

            Yog is Dmitri, and he’s legitimately a weirdo who thinks Russia is some sort of vessel for the god-race or some shit.