They’re here. Not in the numbers reddit used to have, but they’re here. Occasionally we get a good one too. If you find yourself being argued with unreasonably, there’s a good chance that’s a russian troll. They have a scent.
I immediately went to check that “SaltyAmerican” guy that often gets in my “All” feed and latest post was week ago. 🗿
Nothing gives away a Russian troll posing as an American person like trying really hard to emphasize their “Americanness” - with those “as an American”/“we Americans”.
They had a lot of posts on “Late Stage Capitalism” community, and I suspect that community as a whole may probably be run by Russian trolls. Simply because of a contrast with other lefty communities - like you can have civil conversations in most places, and in there it’s just a perpetual hate boner machine, that just wants to get you upset and angry.
rare opportunity to refine blocklists
Russia is not using its own datacenters for fedi when they have unpaid western interns to do it for free.
They’re here. Not in the numbers reddit used to have, but they’re here. Occasionally we get a good one too. If you find yourself being argued with unreasonably, there’s a good chance that’s a russian troll. They have a scent.
They’ve taken over the Late Stage Capitalism community and have started banning comments that say voting against the GOP is a good thing.
I immediately went to check that “SaltyAmerican” guy that often gets in my “All” feed and latest post was week ago. 🗿
Nothing gives away a Russian troll posing as an American person like trying really hard to emphasize their “Americanness” - with those “as an American”/“we Americans”.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/22444072
Definitely not American if they use the west unironically
Who’s this guy? Sounds like a fun read
They had a lot of posts on “Late Stage Capitalism” community, and I suspect that community as a whole may probably be run by Russian trolls. Simply because of a contrast with other lefty communities - like you can have civil conversations in most places, and in there it’s just a perpetual hate boner machine, that just wants to get you upset and angry.
There’s another obnoxious troll that’s similar to yours that is so bad at it, I’m pretty sure he’s an american.
like persimmons or bad bo?
Smug cloud
can you give an example?
These are old and some of them on just their techniques, but it’s a good start.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983
Hope that helps!
Can confirm- they stopped sending me checks a while ago
The real way to end wealth inequality: send cheques to everyone who thinks america deserves the slightest criticism.
It wasn’t those kind of bots, more like the Google web crawlers.