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I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 131 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

6k comments, flaired users only? Sus.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 minutes ago

Lmao dude have you ever actually looked at the restrictions on the vast majority of the popular posts on /r/conservative? It’s honestly comical. They’re super locked down.

Reeks of LLM spam

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 hours ago

The flaired thing always made me laugh. Biggest babies out there. Just think of that Kyle kid crying in court

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 34 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

i don't miss those +1k comment threads, scrolling them gets annoying, also, i recused from commenting if there was already +150, otherwise was like talking to the void

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Its interesting that on lemmy almost everyone gets some kind of upvote/downvote (interaction) whereas on reddit and other sites, you either get viral success or...nothing. No upvotes/downvotes no interactions. My theory is the algorithm + number of people de-humanizes the act of communication in such large communities.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

i used to sort by r/new for years, i learned what mods liked to take down, so i didn't waste time on those post, then make some funny/attempt-to-clever comment and watched raise to the front page as top comment, it was like playing a video game for me

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 hours ago

OMG I did the same thing too... but the funny/sad thing was that I started doing those "typical reddit" comments that weren't really insightful but got lots of upvotes. Then when I came here to Lemmy I had to stop myself from making those kinds of comments.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 5 hours ago

Human to me means small groups and being heard by other humans. I hope Lemmy doesn't hyper-centralize.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I enjoyed the void, commenting into the void was my favorite pastime til I did it on an alt and got autopermbanned, some thread with thousands of comments and it instabanned all my alts and main account

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It really helped the adhd, helped the anxiety knowing no one would probably see it or reply

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

you used it just to reply to yourself like you're doing here? you can do that with messaging apps, unless you got a thrill from someone may be watching

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It made me feel better that I was screaming into a void, no one would see it or reply, no pressure, I still wanted to say stuff, reminded me of twitter before I had hella ppl ik irl follow me, ruined it

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Hey, unironically you should try one of those private social networks where it's all just AI bots and you're the only human. I mean, I hope you stay here too but it might help you to have a place where you can say things without human judgment but you still get some kind of feedback.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit doesn't remove removed commented from the count.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean if they did then most conservative posts would have like 5 comments

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

It always annoyed me when a post reached the front page and they limited who was allowed to comment on it. I usually didn’t even know what sub I was in until after I typed my comment and clicked submit. Followed by auto mod deleting my post.

I forgot how much I hated that about Reddit. Good riddance.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It’s where all the ML Wumao flocked. They killed the Democratic Party, now they’re going after the republicans. They don’t care about Gaza, it’s all about starting an American civil war.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like the Democratic Party did a lot of this to themselves. They’ve been stepping on rakes for a while now.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t argue with that. But the genocide Joe chant spread far and wide, meanwhile the creators of it knew very well what a Trump win would accomplish.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah there’s definitely plenty of blame to go around

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You think those saying the dems aren't left enough went to reddit to be conservatives???

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is that what you interpreted from my comment? Really? Like, no joking, your comprehension skills arrived at this?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Idk how else you can read it, but yeah blame my reading comprehension...

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I will let someone else explain this.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Many of the people claiming to be too liberal for the dems online were not really people, or at least not eligible US voters. They choose whichever perspective is most destabilizing at the moment and push that, sometimes switching accounts and sometimes not even bothering to do that. Theyll jump from Bernie to Trump to Stein and back to Trump without a second thought because they do not actually believe in the positions they are backing, only the chaos they can cause. Some of these people are unaffiliated trolls, some are self organized volunteers, some are paid call center workers and some are bots.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So anyone who has issues with the dems are bots or trolls? Is that what they were trying to say?

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No that is pretty explicitly not what they said.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So you just summarized it that way?

I'm still not sure what they were saying if your summary wasn't what they meant

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Thats not what I said either. You seem to be intent on finding a strawman to attack here.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 hours ago

Rich considering this started with a strawman attack.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fine, since you said please. If you need any clarification just let me know.

I’ll use Lemmy as an example, though the same applies to Reddit. A few months before the election, the phrase “Genocide Joe” was making the rounds. On the surface, it was a criticism of Biden for not stopping arms sales to Israel. I don’t disagree with that criticism. However, this wasn’t a campaign to pressure Biden into action—it was designed to convince Democrats not to vote in protest.

Not everyone who repeated the phrase had bad intentions, but the origins and those aggressively pushing it weren’t doing so out of concern for Gaza. Their goal was something else: weakening the Democratic Party to help Trump win.

They don’t like Trump or believe he would help Gaza—they know he’d make things worse. But that’s not the point. What they want is to accelerate the destruction of the United States by turning Americans against each other and weakening the government from within.

A direct assault on the U.S. isn’t possible—we’re too powerful. The only way to bring us down is through internal collapse, by fueling division and distrust.

After the election, many of the most vocal “Genocide Joe” accounts vanished or went silent. They had served their purpose. Now, the target has shifted: Republicans are next. Suddenly, there’s a surge in activity in conservative spaces, using new slogans tailored to stoke anger at Republican politicians and the government in general.

This is the work of blackpill provocateurs—people who infiltrate movements under false pretenses, not to support them, but to spread division and hopelessness. Their tactics don’t change—only their targets do.

Summary/TLDR

Blackpill provocateurs infiltrate online communities to sow division and weaken the U.S. from within. Before the election, they pushed “Genocide Joe” to discourage Democrats from voting—not to help Gaza, but to damage Biden and help Trump. After the election, many of those accounts disappeared, having served their purpose. Now, they’re targeting Republicans, using similar tactics to turn conservatives against their own politicians. Their goal isn’t to help any cause—it’s to accelerate America’s collapse by fueling internal conflict.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ah so only those being critical of terrible policy decisions are bots. Got it

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I am not suggesting they are automated.