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    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      People explore the fediverse one piece at a time, and at vastly different rates. I started with lemmy.ml, but I am online to the point where my therapist recommended I cut back, and I consume political news like nicotine, so I think I cottoned on relatively quickly. Even so, it still took me some amount of time before it clicked that I was probably browsing a website run by the FSB. A lot of people only join humor or niche topic comms, and/or they may only browse for a few minutes a day (or week), so it might take them a while, if they ever realize at all.

      • Triumph@fedia.io
        11·
        3 days ago

        Not to mention that lurkers always outnumber contributors by at least an order of magnitude.

      • voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I started on lemmyworld instead of ml so have never experienced that instance directly, but i imagine due to federation a lot of people might not even realize that its their own instance putting out the propaganda. As long as the instance admins aren’t blocking a ton of other instances, its not like there’s a huge difference between the content that’s served to the user.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Sure. I didn’t say “omg r u stoopid who doesn’t know this?!” did I? I’ve seen OP around enough to be surprised myself at the notion that they may not have encountered tankies.

        • binux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          It doesn’t seem like it was their intention to reprimand you, it’s an open discussion after all.

        • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I didn’t take it that way, I was just answering why someone might be surprised to learn about lemmy.ml even after they’ve been around the block a few times. It’s often taken for granted that beginners will have gaps in their knowledge, but even long-experienced experts will have foundational gaps occasionally that everyone in the domain assumes is universal knowledge. Just the nature of learning about stuff.

            • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              lol it’s one of the axes I grind everywhere I go. It seems like human nature to believe that expertise is a linear progression and that someone “more expert” should know everything that someone “less expert” knows, plus some. It’s tricky because in casual conversation, that’s likely how it’s going to appear, because experts generally do have a firm grasp of most of the basics. But there are always exceptions, and if you dig deeply and broadly enough, you’ll find them. At least I do, and in many different domains of expertise.

              It’s one of the reasons I detest the idea of “the smartest person in the room”, because there’s never such a thing. Good teams don’t just pick one smartie and let them make all the decisions, they work as a team.