cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29035971

Posting here for preservation’s sake

Image in removed comment was the attached Palpatine image. Curious to see if the same admin mod would remove these screenshots if I crosspost them to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which they also admin and mod. Would I get a fair trial there or will my dissenting and others’ be silenced?

You can’t say you’re against disinfo if you’re knowing and intentionally promulgating it and abetting its usage. They also didn’t even remove the Reddit watermark.

This is why I don’t assign identities unto myself, because you criticize one action done wrong by leaders of an ideology or movement and bam! you’re shut out of it completely. They’ve lost the aid of an ally and progress is impeded by being shorted a participant trying to correct the course.

  • Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    There is no brigade. You need to stop trying to redefine that term. There is no coordination, no plan, no private organizing. What you see is an entirely natural, decentralized reaction to an obnoxious and harmful trend.

    This isn’t something you can deny or prove innocence of, as brigaders and astroturfers are known to lie about their intentions, but FYI by trying to deny the existence or nature of brigading you’ve already failed and made yourself look even more suspicious. They always are ā€œindividual opinionsā€ or ā€œgrassroots movementsā€ according to the ones participating but the proof is in the votes and comment history of the users, and yours doesn’t make you look particularly good.

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      2 days ago

      The person you’re replying to might be telling the truth, no way to know, but this instance got a lot of negative interaction from an actual brigade earlier today, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

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        Yeah, I wouldn’t be either, there have been brigades for a while actually and all the brigaders claim they aren’t that it’s just ā€œindividual opinionsā€. It is hard to know definitively and that’s really what they use to not get caught. Even if some of the people I’ve banned aren’t technically brigaders I don’t feel bad about it since they were anti-AI trolls in the first place, they don’t get anything out of my community. None of them are innocent or have been. OP of this thread certainly also isn’t innocent.

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          Yeah, I saw that later. This is clearly a bigger problem than I knew until like… two hours ago. But! That’s just evidence that the mods and admins are doing a fantastic job!

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      Because I make no secret of my opinions and don’t filter what I interact with?

      If I was part of a secret, AI-hating cabal, what the hell would I be doing here on a thread with like 50 interactions? This has got to be the least advantageous, least productive, most contrived way to further my goals: in the midst of ā€œenemy turf,ā€ with no support, getting downvoted and looking like a loser trying to explain what brigading isn’t.

      There’s no pretty way to say this, but you’re acting like a conspiracy theorist.

      I’m not denying the nature of brigades, I’m saying a lot of the internet hates the genAI trend, is extremely open about it, and that post hit All. This is the simplest explanation, which you’re saying isn’t the case despite having no actual evidence pointing otherwise. But merely trying to prove the obvious would feed into an apparent persecution complex.

      If I stay quiet, you’re right, but if I talk you’re righter. Have a good day, I guess.