And do you understand how you reinforce an argument with supporting evidence? I wanted to establish factual information supporting a clear history of the company's bad practices. That was/is relevant to consideration of federating with a platform.

In fact, lemmy.world has already defederated with instances due to failure to moderate far-right extremism. So why would they federate with Threads when far-right extremism is already a systemic issue and they have admitted lemmy lacks the necessary moderation tools to manage Threads federation?

It seems obvious to me that is a bad idea and it would cultivate a more toxic user experience with more recruitment for radicalism/extremism.

[–] SCB 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tell that to the astroturfers simping for FB/Threads…

No one is astroturfing lemmy. People who disagree with you are not paid actors. They just disagree with you.

[–] GONADS125 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wasn't referring to people disagreeing with me. I upvoted users I disagreed with in this post's comments to promote discussion (such as upvoting your downvoted comment here).

I was referring to people that engage in disingenuous argumentative tactics clearly pushing an agenda, whose presence is also accompanied by what seems like blatant vote manipulation/brigading. This was present when Threads federation was originally a being discussed a little while back. That's what I was referring to.

I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to track down examples, but you may be able to find some from the link to where my comment is originally from.

You can also assume I'm wrong, and that's okay by me. But astroturfing is absolutely a tactic Meta employs. Source

[–] SCB 1 points 1 year ago

TikTok is significantly larger and more worth it then lemmy

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