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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Big shock considering everything we post online is being weaponized in various ways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know this conversation is had nearly daily here, but by fuck am I glad that the fediverse is so much less astroturfed than every other social media site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

we need to work on keeping it that way. we have the advantage with no corporations to silently manipulate us and we own the infrastructure, but we still gotta root out bot accounts and malicious instances

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

no corporations to silently manipulate us

…yet!

They are relentless! They will get here when it becomes meaningful enough. So yes I echo your sentiments that we need to do all we can to prepare for that day to defend this space.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

feds, bots and shills