i'm still convinced that .world was either a psyop or became a captured instance to ensure that as few defecting redditors join any of the pro-leftist instances as possible.

it's the only thing that explains why it was so heavily promoted on so many subreddits instead of lemmy.ml when it had nothing to offer at the beginning of the reddit protests and why there was a coordinated effort to defederat the leftist core instances throughout the lemmyverse.

now piefed is getting that treatment from reddit and they literally used the same pics as before, but edited out .world in favor of piefed

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

yeah the direct reddit tie in with world and piefed definitely feels sketch af

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

i used to wonder if this made me a conspiracy theorist; but the whole tiktok situation combined w watching the cartel humiliate sheinbaum on social media as they retaliate for the us empire's directed assassination of el mencho has convinced me that they're not above using all social media platforms to maintain their grip on the narrative.

and they're really good at it too; they must have learned a lot from the tiktok/4chan/reddit man-o-spheres.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

yeah, and also stuff like this that's been going on forever https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was