this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Fediverse vs Disinformation

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Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.

What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.

By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.


Community rules

Same as instance rules, plus:

  1. No disinformation
  2. Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation

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This is what the admins of .ml cultivate, as documented in the megathread

Credible sources removed just within the last day: https://lemmy.world/post/32298242 https://lemmy.world/post/32426343

.ml is not much different than the rest of the Triad, continued federation with them is continuing to allow them to spread toxic misinformation and behavior across the Threadiverse.

If you're an instance admin, please consider defederation.

Users, consider joining the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance.

Other wonderful content, and this is just from when I looked at the local new feed a bit ago:

Classic RT I'm sure you all know and Pravda.ru "Pravda Report"

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

PLEASE defederate from the tankies. They should have to suffer through engaging with the real world if they want to engage with all of Lemmy, and not have a whole damn instance astroturfing their propaganda to everyone else.

Yes, it is that bad. They literally ban and block anyone who says Russia/China bad, even for wholly valid and factual reasons.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Actually that last paragraph isn't wholly true. I did so and they followed me around to harass me.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I did so and they followed me around to harass me.

lmao, that sounds fun!

Russia and China fucking suck! Come get me, keyboard slaves! Pooh-bear demands it!

Remember, if it ain't Ukrainian, it ain't vodka.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last two times someone did that to me was .world zionists.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In the absence of a true rightwing core to lemmy, we just made our own enemies. My faith in humanity remains rock-bottom.

A lot of this push started at about the same time a day or two ago. Suspicious timing; start of the work week

Right after zionist genocide and bluemaga started taking serious PR hits to the point that .world's overcentralization isn't shielding those vile fucking positions anymore.

What changed or what unusually shitty thing did .ml do in the past week? Im not sure this is about .ml's behavior; i think they're just the next largest instance and differently aligned.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I got added to someones downvote bot after arguing with tankies from my .ml account.

Found out who it was and threatened to do it back and it stopped though

.world does it too, try opposing zionism or blue-maga bullshit. Indistinguishable reaction from going to a tankie server then posting a video of yourself at lenin's grave with a shovel and a strap on.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's hard to tell as a user. You need to ask someone with direct access to a federated lemmy db to look it up for you. they can see who upvoted and who downvoted who with a custom query.

I do not have direct access to a federated lemmy DB at the mo

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No I was just asking if you saw a downvote on my comment :3

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, you have one downvote on your original comment. none on your latest at time of writing

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

I see the same. Thank you :)

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I second the movement to defederate from the tankies!

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

See a lot of .world users saying this. You realize your dog shit server is worse, right? And more rabid about the genocide?

Edit: and now that people are starting to turn on zionism and bluemaga, your server is pushing others to defed the next largest server. You may not be a conscious conspirator, but take a closer look. A lot of this push started at the same time.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Defeferate from the rabid zionist neolibs first. Theyre just as bad and shit is overcentralized on their .world server, so yhry can use it as a shield.

Edit: and now that public opinion is seriously turning on both things, theyre trying to get people to defed the next largest server. Correct me if im wrong about size rankings.

[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I sort by new and there are not a whole lot of posts on lemmy every day, but if this is bothering you that much I would recommend blocking the instance. The posts you are showing of this user aren't even popular and get heavily downvoted.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Instance blocks are nothing more than a comm mute, even if it worked as one would expect, it does nothing to stop them from spreading their toxic misinformation and propaganda to unknowing new users.

And downvoting to oblivion is not something to be relied upon, IME only obvious ones get downvoted like RT or ones with headlines like "UKRAINE WILL FAIL SOON SUPERIOR RUSSIA..."

Subtler disinformation, from lesser known sources, can still end up with positive upvotes and is just as dangerous

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Piefed has actual instance blocking, you might want to give it a try https://piefed.social/

I agree in the abstract but i can't take this seriously from a .world user.

Youre on the zionist bluemaga server. Ive seen all the bad behavior from .ml shit heads fron you, plus things are overcentralized with you.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A voice of reason drowned out by a red scare.

Here we cherry pick unpopular posts and gripe about pro-west news censored. But I think it would be also fun to cherry pick some pro genocide from world, posts that are unpopular too, and gripe about how Chinese news is censored.

Double the fun! Yes?

Lotta .world's pushing to defed .ml recently.

Its really sudden. And i fucking hate those people. And yeah; .world is saturated with zionists, bluemaga. They really are in a glass house, relying on overcentralization to shield them.

Isn't .ml the next largest instance?