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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.

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Whether or not you consider it “disinfo,” doesn’t it smell rather like astroturf? Note that !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com is one of the targeted communities.

Abridged from the original post.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39655060

What they seem to have in common is:

  • Way more posts than comments.
  • Almost exclusively posting news articles.
  • The vast majority of the articles are critical of Russia or China.
  • Virtually always posting to the same few communities. Often there’s overlap in the communities the accounts target.
  • Consistent weekly output.
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tardigrada@beehaw.org May 2022 Dec. 2024
0x815@feddit.de Apr. 2023 Jun. 2024
thelucky8@beehaw.org Apr. 2024 Jan. 2025
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Anyone@slrpnk.net Jan. 2025 Apr. 2025
@randomname@scribe.disroot.org Jan. 2025
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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

this post got me noticing some weird behavior, from my lemmy.ml account i can't see any of the posts from quokk.au posters in this thread (can in other places), and from their perspective they can't see my post (deleted by their moderator), but can see and reply to davel

I also don't see anything in their modlog that would indicate a ban

or even that my post was removed

even weirder, viewing my account via quokka.au shows nothing, but does for davel I wonder if this is the admin blocking me?

aha! figured it out; account deleted for 'brigading'

This also results in the post I made complaining about misogyny from one of their mods getting entirely purged from their end.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't know if it's actually the same thing as banning someone or there is some other explanation, but deleting an account like this is really weird.

Also if it isn't, something about nineteeneightyfour on just completely deleting an account (the link to your account on quokka says "not found"^[1]^, not even showing banned like it would on lemmy), and the ""tankie"" lemmy instances not doing that.

[1] Also well fucking done on the page being literally nothing but "not found", wow, quality software^(/s)^


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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

This type of thing only seems to be meant for spammers, it's effectively the same as being banned with remove all posts, which is an extreme response in my opinion.

I followed up with the admin on the db0 general matrix; they didn't respond to my dms otherwise.

the reason they gave for the action was because I linked my yptb post in a slop thread

I have a hard time believing it wasn't reported by the mod that I was calling out. This makes it hard to interpret it any other way than retaliation for calling them out for misogyny.

apparently posting things in hexbear/slop is grounds for a site purge, but an entire hate comm dedicated to other parts of the federation is fine.

for an 'anarchist queer friendly' server they seem extremely authoritarian and comfortable with misogyny

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

it's effectively the same as being banned with remove all posts

Yeah, but at least the remove option still lets your account exist. And instead it's made clear you have been banned.


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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Congrats on being principled enough to get erased from their view, they haven't done that for me it seems. Probably because I tend to stick to Lemmy.ml on my .ml account, but still, impressive on your part

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