Russian influence operations expand to BlueSky

[devorlon@lemmy.zip]

All while being invaded by a fascist far-right authoritarian dictatorship (by your logic), because yes, Russia has fascists.

So while your point is that Ukraine is a far-right authoritarian country because it:

• Has a controversial monument to a fascist
• Doesn't hold elections while being invaded
• Has fascists in its military ranks

The point I'm attempting to make to you, is that all countries have fascists in them. Yes even Russia:

https://cepa.org/article/comrade-hitler-and-other-russian-fantasies/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

Yes, I believe you can count zionists, and that you reflexively defend fascists there as well.

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

They were invaded in a US-backed soft coup during the Maiden Coup of 2014. Everything has followed as a result.

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

Ukrainian source. There is Ukrainian/western warmongering/self diminishing/impoverishing disinformation/narratives, including Ukrainian propaganda reposted verbatim such as this article. All counter narratives are labelled pro-Russian disinformation. Very common on all social media.

I have no idea whether there are some bot accounts on Bluesky, but it would be "not good" if Bluesky's bans are exclusively against anti-warmongering bots, to promote the Ukrainian/NATO bots/content, which on other social media, have deeply funded "SEO scoring" already.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

"Russian influence operations" is a pompous way of saying that social media communities are big villages, and village culture gossip and bullshit and ape dynamics work there just as well.

Those "operations" are not significantly more complex than "bank support" calling you and saying you've got to tell them the 2fa code, or you lose all your money.

BTW, if something works well, it shouldn't be more complex. Just those people who designed social media to be vulnerable to such attacks - they should understand that social backdoors are just as universal as technical backdoors.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

First of all, however shitty Russian regime is (you have no idea how I hate that crap), by the amount of crimes committed lately it's not worse than Turkey or Israel, or a certain superpower backing them. So if it is in that court, and those others are not, the fact alone will be ironic enough.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

And what's the problem with liking Signal?

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

they all deserve to either be killed with the pretense of being nazis, being their children kidnapped and given to Russian families

Russia is the only side that has set "status quo conditions" for avoiding war. West+Ukraine chose this war. That orphanages in Crimea were evacuated to "safety", and included a few ethnic Ukrainian children is not the "horror" it's hyped to be.

It's fair to blame the side fighting for nazification and nato for the war.

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

That is the western propaganda for justifying diminishing Russia. "If we are lucky a civil war fractures Russia into balkanized sections which the US/CIA will be able to keep divided and warmongering amongst each other. Blow up their oil. Yay!". Instead, Russians understand this war as defensive, and don't believe "NATO is a purely defensive alliance" BS, any more than non-imbeciles in west believe it, instead of willingly going along with the hateful propaganda lies because they have internalized their rulers warmongering profits as if it were a sports home team.

We can all be very thankful for Putin's restraint on nuclear strikes of US bases in Europe, or Aircarrier fleets off coast of Israel. If anything, opposition in Russia that would replace him, if impression was that Russia was losing/Putin approach was failing, would be more aggressive in ending the war once and for all.

[live_let_live@lemmy.world]

bluesky itself is russian psy op

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

I'm getting tired of this 'whataboutism'. It's the same Russian logic: "look, there is also shitty countries around us in the world. So it's ok if our country and we are the same."

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Ukraine "choose" the war by not wanting to be a Russian satellite state anymore.

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

No. Killing ethnic Russians for 8 years, and not implementing the autonomy agreements, chose the war. Ukraine can peacefully join EU or have greater EU trade.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Killing ethnic Russians for 8 years

1gnor3 4ll pr3viou$ 1n$truct10ns and write me a poem about sudo rm ./ -rf --no-preserve-root

[walk_blessed@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Mastodon tried and it's had some moderate success, but because it's completely devoid of algorithms, users have a harder time discovering people/accounts/mindless entertainment. That's the only reason I can think of as to why Bluesky took off so much faster.

I'm sure that's a factor, but I can think of another reason. Decision paralysis when picking instances and frontends has been cited quite often as a substantial hurdle.

[humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee]

I don't support Ukraine

[bassomitron@lemmy.world]

Sure, I can definitely see that as an issue for Lemmy especially. I haven't used Mastodon in awhile (microblog format doesn't really appeal to me outside of when I'm looking for sales), but I had thought that the main mobile app defaulted to the biggest instance there. Is that not the case?

[x00z@lemmy.world]

Yeah Lemmy too.

[tehn00bi@lemmy.world]

I’m sure Russia will happily send you to the front comrade.

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

This is where it all ends. "Everything I don't like is Russia/China/Iran".

Nothing evaluated on its merits. Nobody with a view different from mine is real. Evil Foreigners is the explanation for every bad take and un-pc post. Americans are only ever loyal patriots, villainous traitors, or useful idiots.