There there, it’ll be alright… have some jeans

That’s great! I really hope the fediverse can replace corporate slop social media, and I think people coming here and not getting turned off by those bad instances is key.

Rawdogging Lemmy without blocking hexbear and the .ml instances… good luck!

I use tags often, but I don’t block, I use it to track accounts spreading disinformation.

Agree, it do be like that

They’re extremist and openly advocate murder. Hexbear users threatened to kill me.

Dens is good

They’re just pretending to be communist in order to spread Kremlin propaganda to gullible people who are dissatisfied with their own countries.

Look at his eyes, he doesn’t even know where he is, that kitty is half baked

That’s not an indictment of Lemmy specifically

For me this is a major, glaring problem with Lemmy. The obtuse and bad faith arguments are a constant problem here. Some of the things that get upvoted are wildly wrong, openly biased, and would be ridiculed in most other settings.

If not for instances like Lemmy.ml and hexbear it wouldn’t be so bad, but even if they disappeared, the Lemmy user base is an echochamber that’s out of touch with reality.

Well, Russia actually doesn’t have a lot of fodder to throw around. They’re facing a demographic crisis even without the Kremlin’s barbaric war.

China’s population is almost ten times larger.

Agreed, but the sheer manpower and economic potential (to create materiel and fund a war) are considerable.

Don’t worry, fellow Americans! A hostile foreign country manipulating your government does not concern you.

Because the CCP is run by a powerful sociopaths famous for stealing information and abusing human rights.

offensive threat

The CCP regularly, overtly threatens Taiwan and is aggressive with many of its other neighbors (e.g., ramming fishing boats).

Yeah, and they’re even worse now. A scientologist for a lead singer… are you shitting me?

Fuck Linkin Park for that.

They keep rambling on about jeans and beans even though you stopped contributing to the conversation several minutes ago…

Too much CCP and Kremlin propaganda.

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