• frippa@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Really strange how it became #1 lemmy instance in a matter of days, it basically became the lemmy instance for people that said “muuuh lemmy.ml admin are genocide deniers uhygurs 100 millions hodomor Stalin CCP famine” 🙄

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      1 year ago

      Really strange how it became #1 lemmy instance in a matter of days, it basically became the lemmy instance for people that said “muuuh lemmy.ml admin are genocide deniers uhygurs 100 millions hodomor Stalin CCP famine” 🙄

      That’s exactly it. “We hate Reddit and its centralized, surveillance-capitalism model! Let’s move to Lemmy! Wait what? Lemmy is built by COMMUNISTS? And they don’t uncritically regurgitate NATO propaganda? OH NO!”

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      1 year ago

      I saw a guy literally posting pretty much all of those unironically today. I almost started to respond and then thought better of it. I don’t mind engaging with some liberals in good faith if I think they are just misguided, but that was absolutely a lost cause.

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        1 year ago

        The only thing you can do with someone like that is ruthlessly dunk on them for the benefit of an audience