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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aww the poor Russian bots think they can hide content by down voting it like they do on reddit? Won't anyone think of Putin's sad hurt feelings? ... Oh wait, that's right, we DO think of him -- every time we point and laugh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's especially funny because of how Lemmy's default sort option works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Active? Does it count downvotes as activity?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't, not sure what that person is on about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What IS the default option now? I changed mine to new, so I see everything no matter how much they downvote it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's enough weird pro-Russian tankies around I'd believe it's at least partially native.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10 downvotes within 5 minutes of a post going up is very suspect, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t bot activity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also possible!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eh. I get a bunch of downvotes every time I post on lemmy.world/c/conservative even if Im just posting the text of a law.

I think that some here are just very liberal with the downvote button.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The more apt comparison is posting the text of law to /r/law and immediately getting 10 downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why would any tankies support Russia? It's no longer a communist state anymore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The tankie unifying ideology is something closer to “everything that is anti-US is good” rather than a coherent narrative about something that actually unifies historical or current communist dictatorships. So there tends to be a fair amount of Russian simping or Russia/US both-sides equivocation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Dude. Who knows? They don't make the slightest amount of sense. Tanky is more just anti-west than anything meaningful now. They're braindead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's pure tribalism at that level, nothing to do with logic or even principles.

In that specific tribe Russia = Good, US = Bad, always and with no case-by-case analysis.

(Mind you, I did once turned a tankie away from that by pointing out that Russia's Invasion of Ukraine was the same kind of thing as the US' second invasion of Iraq so it made sense to judge the invaders in both exactly in the same way. Granted this was back in the early days of the invasion and I reckon that anybody who still remains pro-Russia now is either an authoritarian at hearth or a brainless unprincipled parrot).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hmm, must be your instance.
I'm on Kbin and 0 Downvotes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't think downvotes federate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They do, but the federation can be spotty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just takes time for it to percolate through. They do federate, but you'll see it happen in groups later, not one at a time instantly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not to kbin.social, at least within a week. Effectively, downvotes from lemmy instances don’t exist for kbin.social users.