Itβs nearly election season. Meme machine go burr. Ask Russia, theyβll know.
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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Yeah, say what you want about reddit, at least they had systems in place to detect and shadowban divisive and harmful propaganda. That is very clearly not the case on Lemmy.
So far lemmy seems to be a slow realisation of the ways reddit wasn't actually bad
I disagree.
Haven't seen it myself but because Lemmy has a relatively small user base it's fairly easy to just flood it with content and have a significant portion show up on the front page. If you're seeing a sudden influx of a specific type of meme, my guess is that's just someone sending a lot of the same kind of content ar once.
Seems like the guy has dug up his USA bad folder
It's a bunch of different users.
It's really not that hard to create multiple accounts on Lemmy.
I only saw the one account posting oil stuff and blocked them
I thought most of them were from the same guy. One or two were mildly funny, but posting basically the same joke a dozen times in a row is arguably not how to make it shine. Also, a couple people might have heard the ol' "DAE le USA le oil eggs dee" before.
When I first noticed the memes, I looked at the account making them and it was less than a day old. I just figured they had an axe to grind or it was an election season bot and blocked the account, lol.
Why don't people get that posting a million memes about the same thing in a row gets tiring? I don't give a shit about what the subject is, just space them out or something.
A couple of America and oil memes? Funny. 10 nearly identical copies of a meme in a row? Starts to get grating.
...election cycle :(
Folks are probably riled up over the bombings.
What bombings? The ones in gaza or a new one?
gaza or a new one
Truly a question to ask...
Very sad times we live in.
I think it's just about the USA, not America as a whole
Fair point, should have thought of that.
I don't really know, but I enjoy the topical rants we go on, whether it's beans, stroganoff or whatever - it's fun.
The oil shit has mostly been on point though
For the record, the US has been oil independent for around the past 10ish years or so, since our fracking boom. We're still vulnerable to global price fluctuations, but when it comes to strategic necessity, we don't actually need overseas oil, and probably never will again.
So, it was fairly accurate propaganda at one point, about 20ish years ago perhaps, but things do tend to change given enough time.
It's probably that one nazbol guy who spams crappy "left" memes who I blocked awhile ago because i'm not seeing anything like that.
EDIT: I also have LW and HB instance blocked (as i'm banned from both) which probably has a lot to do with it as well.
USA does bad things
Some people make memes about it
People in the USA:
~~Let's make our country accountable for bad thing it does~~
What's happening? My fee fees are hurt.
Or the most popular:
We don't even think about your country
Then they call others snowflakes. γ(γ)γ
Aren't you folks supposed to be all for "freedom of expression" or something. Oh right⦠that's only when youre the one spewing the bullshit.
Who's they? A population of 300 million people? The USA is large and diverse, it can't be simplied in the way you're describing just like the EU couldn't. Social media and meme propaganda doesn't represent a country and it's people.
Just today? There are a lot of hardcore people here that are pro China and pro Russia.