• squiblet@kbin.social
    2·
    9 months ago

    As noted, that’s exactly what people said about every community ever. “Shills? Manipulation? Nobody would do that!” except that various world governments funded divisions to do exactly that, it turns out.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Can you list any website or community that has less than 10k active posters that has shills?

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Why would I be able to do that? As I mentioned about the roundup thing, that doesn’t matter. They just search for anything relevant.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          So you don’t have any evidence that there are shills on lemmy. Then why even argue that point if you don’t have anything?

          There’s no shills on Lemmy, dude, quit being paranoid

          • squiblet@kbin.social
            1·
            9 months ago

            Okay bro bruh! You’re right! goat is very correct!! I have no ability to use logic either!! Yeah!!

            • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
              11·
              9 months ago

              aight dude, no need to freak out. just saying that it’s waaay unlikely for government shills to operate on a small internet forum compared to large social media.

                • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Same as yours, experience. I’ve been active on voat, ruqqus, said.it–Almost all the reddit alternatives. No one is shilling.

                  Like think of it at a logistical level in the perspective of a shill boss. Would you really dedicate resources to shilling a community already self-radicalised by its admins? Or would you dedicate those resources to mainstream social media websites where the admins have a very hands-off approach to politics?