I’m not a troll, I just call other people out for their BS.

I think most of lemmy.today is bad faith astroturfing.

This is not the first time !PapaSkwat@lemmy.today has preemptively banned me from a community I’m pretty sure I’ve never interacted with.

This is a warning for others. Do not assume posts on Lemmy.today are real or in good faith.

Here is a related post with similar circumstances.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57218230

  • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Thanks for clarifying, I wasn’t sure since you used the word instance.

    I get not having the time to look into it either, and neither do I.

    From everything I’ve seen from DJM or Papa or any of the accounts accused of being him/them, I haven’t come across anything overly right wing or authoritarian. That said, I probably see a sliver of their content since I don’t follow the conservative community, but the few times I’ve interacted with them have been pretty civil.

    Now, this isn’t to say “They’re nice to me and I haven’t seen any evil, so it doesn’t exist.” All I’m saying is I haven’t seen anything questionable and every time I get linked to damning evidence, it ends up pretty innocuous.

    I don’t think you can blame someone if there’s no discussion around the content they post, like 75% of the articles I post get one or two comments at most. As for the mass posting, eh. Maybe they read fast like I do, because I usually speed through 10-20 articles every morning and post like 6-7 of them.

    Early on in my lemmy days, I posted more varied articles and even had a Conspiracy Tuesday, but lemmings have a hard time differentiating the poster from the source. “Let’s discuss this” vs. “This is my opinion.” Now I have to state I don’t agree with the source beforehand so I don’t get angry comments, and even then…

    I’m not saying that’s what DJM was doing, just saying it’s not cool to shoot the messenger.

    However, if they are posting maga rhetoric and arguing in favor of it, I’d like to know.