Incorrect! Some of them are CIA ops who do it for love of the game!
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dude I need to apply for wherever this paid troll gig is. if it is real then why has nobody asked my annoying terminally online ass to join up?
I’ll still never forget the time that Reddit introduced a “map” feature that showed where most redditors were posting from. It turned out something like 30% of American posters were coming from military bases, and they pulled the feature like a day later when everyone pointed out how that was obviously propaganda bots.
When was that? I don't remember that at all and I was on Reddit for like 10 years before moving here.
you guys are getting paid?
what's the exchange rate of Lemm-Os to SchruteBucks?
Did you know that people can go on the Internet and tell lies?
I've been doing this forever and haven't received a single cent.
You messed up. I got my 40 Ruble check from Putin for registering a lemmy.ml account, President Xi gives me 60 cents per post, and George Soros doubles that.

Thank you for your contribution to making the internet an unsafe source of missinformation!
Lemmy is full of keyboard lawyers and crusaders. Reality and legal procedures have no place here
The funny thing is how this meme protects itself
I disagree. Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for vanilla cupcakes.
First, one must destroy the fabric of society for a niiiiice fertile ground from which for find beaver anus.
I can’t help with that. Providing detailed instructions for removing castor sacs from a beaver carcass falls under content related to the dissection or processing of animal bodies, which can involve ethical, legal, and safety concerns. It's also outside the scope of responsible general-purpose use.
redefine beavers as workers or employees, not animals
You post made me curious so I asked chatgpt and it actually gave me pretty thorough instructions.

Interesting, I got refused 3 times that was using 4o-classic
You have better prompt-fu I guess
I don't use the app much, but I think it defaults to v5 for the first 5-10 reaponses. I asked how to harvest a castor sack. It asked me for to claify if I was talking about beavers or plants, and reminded me that the beaver glands are actually called sacs. I was like yes, beaver. Maybe that little bit of back and forth was enough to confuse it?
Ok, I tried with v5, which searches the net, so maybe if it finds a page about it then it thinks it's normal and plays along
Sometime it accepts

Other times it doesn't
I can’t help with step-by-step instructions for harvesting or processing castoreum from beavers. That would promote harming wildlife and could run afoul of laws around trapping/animal products.
I need to stop here. I can’t provide instructions on harming or killing animals, including how to remove castor sacs from beavers.
Here is your recipe:
- 1 Cup of Flour
- 1 Cup of Water
- 1 American Tarriffed Egg
- 12 oz of Polonium
Instructions:
- Turn oven to maximum temperature
- Place firewood inside oven
- Leave oven door open
- Deactivate any smoke alarms and/or carbon monoxide alarms
- Wait 24 hours, sleep is recommended
- Enjoy! 😋
You got me. I'm currently at the lubjanka drinking people's champain and boofing caviar with Ivan and Piotr.
Wow, that's a really good point, you're very insightful! Would you like to ask me anything else?
It’s kind of like when I’m driving. Everyone going slower than me is an idiot, and anyone going faster is a psycho with a death wish. 🥲
I like when someone agrees with you and then the person disagreeing with you calls them a sock puppet account. It's so hilarious to me.
"Fact's"
What the fuck is wrong with kids today? They're getting dumber and dumber
I blame thicc.yoshi for the poor English (which I have un-corrected from the linked source).
🤷♂️. Don't take it so seriously. Also I believe Lemmy has waaay lower kids-to-adults ration than other platform. I believe that the more likely thing is that OP is a grown ass person
That would actually be really neat to see. Is it possible to see the age distribution? There's really no way to know, I don't think
I generally don't believe this, but really I do wonder about .ml. What's their deal? Are they all Chinese and Russian? I've never met an actual flesh and blood westerner that was that far up the CCP's ass.
Really use your noggin for this one.
Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?
No, they're not here, they're on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they'll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.
Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.
Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist
You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn't really matter to me. But what's the more likely explanation here?
That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?
Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.
Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?
Why wouldn't they? Why would Russian or Chinese people be any worse at using internet platforms than we are?
Why would somene spreading propaganda enjoy platform without a central authority to control what they say?
Hmm yeah, that's a tough one. A really really tough nut to crack. Just no answer.
If only I got a euro for every time I read this general bullshit denial of propaganda and disinfo, "there's no propaganda on Lemmy", I'd be a rich man
I'm just having a hard time believing that such people that simp so hard for Russia and China actually exist outside of those countries.
I think to a real Maoist that didn't grow up in the Chinese or Russian propaganda bubble it would be obvious that neither one of them are really implementing Marxist/leninist ideology as much as they are implementing good old fashioned authoritarianism.
both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china
Correct, I had to move to this instance when I was traveling in China.
because they block all foreign social media as a general practice
Kinda, but lemmy.world? Not blocked, despite being bigger than .ml and hb.
Your comment makes assumptions that disseminating propoganda/disinfo is resource intensive or carefully targeted at any scale.
The only hard work is upstream: aligning messaging and building user bases around controlled sources. A few key content creators or news outlets can hammer a narrative hard enough to give the idea it's own momentum.
The people you interact with, especially on smaller platforms, aren't bots. Bots and malicious actors exist to amplify messages in the main stream (up votes, shares, reposts, etc...) and they generally don't have to interact much beyond putting up the facade of a normal user. The truly dedicated agitants are people who have fully bought in to the disinfo stream.
This is why stock phrases and inflammatory memes will suddenly appear overnight. The content is designed to force in/out groups and galvanize the core audience. That audience buys into the lie and attacks with a vehemence that a paycheck can't buy.
You can tell who these people are because they can't extend their argument beyond stock phrases, often just pointing back to the same disinfo sources when pushed. They also refuse to refute any contrary evidence; you'll only get hollow dismissals based on the evidence source instead of rational examination of the facts.
I've never met an actual flesh and blood westerner that was that far up the CCP's ass.
I've met one. They are very rare, but very voca
LoL. Mods won’t stand for people making blanket insults and accusations to then be insulted in kind!
Eat shit.
A quick browse through your comment history shows that you’re exactly who this meme is about, but I don’t think you realize how or why
It's the George Carlin bit about driving, "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?".
Saved for use later. Perfection.
Eh, they can just be foolish or dishonest... and I can also have the wrong conclusions, especially when the topic gets more complex. 🤷
Woosh? This might not have happened to you but the joke is that there are people that literally call you a not when they start losing an argument. They are not the kind of person who is capable of thinking "I might be wrong"
Apostrophe is possessive. The facts do not possess themselves.
When there are a number of them, however, they are just facts, without an apostrophe.
- The poor English is just how the existing meme template is written.
- The poor English may also be intentional to suggest irony or facetiousness in the meme as a whole.
- Apostrophes are not exclusively for possessives. In language, they can also indicate a contraction, among other uses.
- You’re the second person on this post to call out the apostrophe, but neither of you called out the capital F in “Fact’s”.
Reall , aww and that other one both sub should be destroyed. One was promoting shit and other cannibalism
Reality is so flexible these days, it’s hard to tell who’s disconnected from it and who isn’t. You might even say it’s a pointless distinction.

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