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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The elephant in the room is that they're mostly bots or bad actors. They're written almost exactly the same and in the same format. When you call them on it, you are downvoted almost instantly and buried. We usually don't qualify to get the really good ones in here, but that's a good thing imo.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Geez, I wonder why baselessly accusing people of being bots would get you downvoted.

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Did you know: blocking all posts and comments from .ml makes the fediverse experience way, way better!

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I don't engage with .ml

I just downvote everything from there and move on.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I prefer to see the patterns, I don't take it personally at all anymore. I'm a reddit veteran when they were 100x worse.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

mostly bots

Where are these bots targeting lemmy coming from you think?

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk -2 points 1 day ago

I don't know if they are bots. But I would imagine Russia. Russia loves to have a weak US with Republicans in power and Trump subordinate to Putin, and one way to get that is to have people not vote for Democrats.

[–] umb_official@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Someone having a different ideology other than your own isn’t being a “bot” or a “bad actor.” Saying that just shows you don’t know anything about US politics.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting a .ml user who defends China multiple times in the first few comments in their history says this. Pikachu face!

[–] umb_official@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah I do China is amazing

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Unless you think basically any of the problems worsening under the trump administration, which they've had for decades, matter at all.

[–] nsrxn@mstdn.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's that way on Mastodon at all, but they're definitely on Lemmy. Why did you attack my comment so hard without trying to figure out where I'm coming from?

[–] nsrxn@mstdn.social 0 points 1 day ago

if you weren't making it up, you could provide evidence.