Fediverse vs Disinformation
Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
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What the hell? Why are you making random unfounded bad faith accusations towards me. I pinged the ones that came to mind, mainly the ones I know and also are admins of the ones I'm part of.
In case you're wondering the reason I didn't ping hexbear or lemmy.ml is the same reason I didn't ping literally any others than the ones listed. They didn't cross my mind when I was thinking of teams to ping.
You really need to work on not inferring bad faith in others' actions and pouncing on them preemptively. It makes it seem that your actions are in and of themselves in bad faith.
CC: @[email protected] @[email protected]
This type of behavior you are engaging in right now with me is absolutely in bad faith.
If you think that jumping on me and accusing me of omitting instances from my mentions intentionally, and overall having a hostile tone towards me with zero provocation is "level-headed" or "good-faith" then we have some very different definitions of those terms. You have not acted level headed from the moment you replied to me, and frankly your behavior towards me has been extremely hostile. You haven't acted in good faith since you first replied to me.
I mean, your earlier comments in this exact thread look to be spreading disinfo:
"most tankies don't jump straight to the transphobia"
This seems to imply that some do jump straight to transphobia while others are still transphobic, but less obvious about it.(ie they don't jump directly for transphobia but end up there eventually.
Is that the implication you intended? because I can see why that would piss off an admin on one of the instances with the biggest trans communities on Lemmy.
Either way you were literally posting about "the tankies" on this thread but then at the same time they "didn't cross your mind" when it came to asking people to address the original issue. Looks like bad faith behavior to me.
That's not disinformation at all
You seem to be implying that this is impossible, which is a ridiculous thing to think
I was pointing out how a reading of the statement made could be that they were saying that all tankies are transphobic, some less open about it. That's a reading which is pretty inflammatory considering how a large portion of the trans community active on the fediverse is on "tankie" instances. The "tankie" instances also have had the strictest rules against transphobia out there.
So I would say that yes, the likelihood of all tankies' being transphobic (some sneaky about it) is near zero based on observable reality in this universe.
Also as discussed with draconicneo, that wasn't even the original intent behind the statement anyways, so I don't see why you need to rehash as if it was.
Yeah the implication is that tankes don't gravitate towards transphobia which is why I think it is a troll who's fucking with us or trying to get attention or hurt people.
I'd agree that it looks like some Nazi trolling, the transphobia makes it stick out like a sore thumb.
It oftentimes takes me a few passes to get what people mean too. I was mostly trying to point out why I could see reasoning for her to come in hot in the thread.
yeah I guess I can kind of see how that can be misinterpreted now. I guess it goes to show how different people can read things completely differently in their head.
ADHD brain go brrrrrrr.
I don't know what you expect me to do here by pinging me.
Just wanted to bring attention to this hostile bad faith behavior which doesn't seem like something that is welcome here in this community. Also the fact that he's lashing out over reports due to his uncivil behavior:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37004617/16455785
I'm not a mod of this comm. But in any case, hostile bad faith from hexbears is sort of their default against anyone who they don't perceive to be in their camp.
That is true. I did ping Unruffled as well, so we'll see what he thinks about it. Should probably ping @[email protected] as well. His lemmy.world account won't be able to see it, but his dbzer0 one should.
Hey buddy, don't take anything Carcosa says too seriously, they were just here to cause pointless drama.
Yeah I figured as much, they weren't contributing anything meaningful to the discussion. The fact they had to make up lies proves they had no intention of engaging in good faith at all.