Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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Guidelines:
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- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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There's a dozen or so that post constant propaganda against countries that don't conform to US interests. Their approach is so similar that it's hard to believe there isn't something that links the accounts.
This type of behaviour is discoverable. There are probably much more subtle campaigns ongoing too. I'm undecided as to whether it is just the efforts of some 'centrist' zealots or there are some actual spooks in here.
There's also a certain type of person that just... posts that shit. I'm not saying they're bots or not bots or any damn thing, because there's tons of bot spam anyway, but I think you're underestimating how intensely shit some people's meme game is
I feel like the "hilarious chaos" instance was (is? iirc .world defederated from them so idk if they're still around) like that. They were already starting from behind with such a try-hard name, and then most of their posts were Facebook-level crap. I ran into them a lot browsing all top-hour, and my impression was that the posters were trying but had a... less refined palate than the average Lemmy user.
It's both. The government pays for this type of thing. It's not just me that noticed it either. With chatbots it's never been cheaper to run these either, and apparently they do bother with little old lemmy, although it's nothing like reddit which is owned by them and corporate influence ops.
Lemmy.World is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use ,not for usa to rule