It’s unbelievable how vocal the minority of conservatives on reddit have suddenly gotten in the one sub where a large demographic of important voters often interact. Hmmm. Coincidence?

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    It is certainly true that other interest groups also engage in propaganda (or PR, as it is called these days) in both traditional and social media. But that’s not what this thread is about.

    Anyway, you can perhaps even see something positive in the fact that the usual PR and opinion manipulation methods are now apparently also being applied to Lemmy, because this shows that whoever is responsible for these campaigns obviously ascribes a certain importance to this platform and thus also to the Fediverse - and that is somewhat of a good thing, I guess.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      32·
      4 months ago

      Yeah I was surprised to notice these patterns here this early

      I am assuming they are taking seriously and learn to to use the platform.

      It is also easier to notice due to way less volume here.

      I just hope with proepr education people can better avoid feeding it.

      Spotting Bad faith actor V disliking opinion is not quite a wide spread skill. But people are getting better at it.

      Remember folks, just because you like what they say, doesn’t make them a good faith actor. And reverse