Yeah, we need to deal with the Russian propaganda every day on Lemmy. If you say anything bad about communist, Russia or china, you will get a mass downvoted. As always... This community sucks more than what I thought.

[–] Unfunnyryan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yup. It's pretty bad at the moment.

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My criticism was towards Russia; Russia is not socialist (and no country has ever been communist); it is just an oligarchy really. I'm against west imperialism and capitalism, but I and my Russian friends are not blind to Russia fascism and imperialism.

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Okay, thanks to clarify. I just agree with what you say, but you got a mass downvoted because you're talking bad about Russia... that's why I stopped to use lemmy for a long time and probably ignore this community as I am tired of those fanatics' propaganda.

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh I see thanks! I'm on beehaw.org which disables downvotes (I also disable showing upvotes in my account) so I was unaware about the downvotes when I replied you. Maybe you could come to here as well if you have any interest to keep using Lemmy.

Looking at the positive, or neutral, side, at least the east propaganda makes it reach an equilibrium since most other English-talking places have mostly west propaganda. It seems to me people, or propaganda people/bots, on some Lemmy instances are against west at all costs, so they will eventually try silencing views which go against their version as to avoid something like historic nihilism. That's not too different from west propaganda people.

I should probably just quit using these websites altogether, and stay at scientific and professional communities. But I like the free/libre/federated aspect of it here, and in comparison to Reddit for example, posted content I see on the frontpage is generally serious.

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, the problem is that those people also post propaganda on technology which lemmy.ml also has nice stuff too.

What I did is, using RSS Guard https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard I subscribed to all topics I am interested. Then I add a filter like this.

var blacklist = [  '/u/yogthos' ];  function filterMessage() {  if (blacklist.some(i => msg.author.indexOf(i) != -1)) { return MessageObject.Ignore;  } else {   return MessageObject.Accept;  }  }

So you can block users posting too much propaganda, and you are not going to waste your time on this kind of posts.

Good thing about RSS is that you neither waste time checking new articles, you already get notified. I think this is more efficient.

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks! I use RSS for work and project-related stuff. Guess I'll look into something for self hosting for general news so I can use it on phone as well