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[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

4 upvotes, no downvotes, removed by mod and banned. Huh.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Considering the shit that gets upvoted on Lemmy that's not saying much.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm rather confident that bots are rampant on here. All the wrong news sites are constantly the ones that are upvoted the most. The bots don't care who you hate, just that you hate. It doesn't matter if it is leaders, minorities, businesses, other nations, or whatever.

The bots agenda is to make it harder for people to work together in unison. Create disruptions and lower the operational efficiency of other nations.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

And I doubt the Lemmy devs will do anything to stop them. Fortunately, with other software like PieFed and mbin reaching maturity the Lemmy devs won't matter soon.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hate that removed posts get deleted, I'm filled with curiosity

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah. I mean I get that some posts are obvious scam/spam/hate but a brief description of the post by the people who posted before it was deleted would be appreciated. Otherwise it's just a tease