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[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Image misses hexbear instance also. And lemmygrad(but I am not sure if world instance communicates with it).

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Are these just straight up fucking propaganda? I've hated them since I arrived here... A lot of the people on them are fucking nuts.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's q-anon but they let in gay people. It presents a comforting dualistic worldview, supported by shadowy, unfalsifiable conspiracies. There's elements of flat Earth theory in there too, in that it's blatently contrary to what everyone else sees/thinks in a way that allows them to feel very clever for seeing through the illusion.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmygrad - yes. Hexbear and ml - yes, but diluted with some regular content to appear normal and gather ordinary unsuspecting souls into their instance.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hexbear/.ml infiltrated political memes, it was much more neutral until few months ago.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I can imagine. Amount of bigotry in these instances is unbelievable.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Aha, this explains a lot, actually. It is a bit weird experience to be on a neutral instance, that federates all others(or most of them), and then see defederation on other instances.