• salacious_coasterOP
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      6 months ago

      True. I wasn’t suggesting they don’t exist. I’ve just seen lots of users respond to any contradiction or criticism by immediately accusing the other person of being a bot or troll or whatever. Like an international plot to suppress their ideas is the only possible explanation for disagreement.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        Tale as old as the Internet. Back when Slashdot was relevant, someone accused me of being a telecom industry plant because I said the IPv6 rollout was being fucked up. Apparently on the basis that ISPs were set to make buckets of money by charging for IPv4 addresses. When I mentioned the conversation to a netadmin friend of mine, he thought the idea was stupid as fuck. Because it is.

        Over 20 years later, Google is just about to hit 50% IPv6 traffic. I don’t consider that a success.

  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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    Is it satire if it’s true? We’ve literally seen dozen of articles about the Russian government investing in exactly this kind of discourse.

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      6 months ago

      You’re making the OP’s point for them, unless you also call people who agree with you Russian trolls.

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    I haven’t seen too much of this except with people acting like Russian trolls.