• SpeedyCat2014@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m old and out of the loop but that astroturfing was so blatantly obvious it pinged my BS meter immediately.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What astroturfing? The tanky astroturfing or astroturfing about the place being tanky?

      Because before the influx, Lemmy.ml was absolutely tanky. It’s just been completely drowned out by the flood, so it barely matters anymore.

      Like, this entire platform has arguably gone through one of the most dramatic changes in a week in the history of the internet. What was here before is almost irrelevant now. What the devs believe is also irrelevant because it’s open source and decentralized. Literally the whole point of this is to not be beholden to them.

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        1 year ago

        Can confirm lemmy.ml had a pretty unsavory look to it before the migration. It’s the reason I elected not to sign up there out of precaution because with what I was seeing, I worried about it getting defederated stat.

        • 🇺🇦 seirim @lemmy.pro
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          1 year ago

          Absolutely, when I first arrived… seems long ago but wasn’t! The “tankie” talk was thick and I was hearing all kinds of wacky perspectives I’d never heard before and presented pretty heatedly. I do think they’ve been drowned out now with the influx.