Whether or not you consider it “disinfo,” doesn’t it smell rather like astroturf? Note that [email protected] is one of the targeted communities.
Abridged from the original post.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39655060
What they seem to have in common is:
- Way more posts than comments.
- Almost exclusively posting news articles.
- The vast majority of the articles are critical of Russia or China.
- Virtually always posting to the same few communities. Often there’s overlap in the communities the accounts target.
- Consistent weekly output.
Username Start End [email protected] May 2022 Dec. 2024 [email protected] Apr. 2023 Jun. 2024 [email protected] Apr. 2024 Jan. 2025 [email protected] Jun. 2024 Dec. 2024 [email protected] Jan. 2025 Apr. 2025 @[email protected] Jan. 2025 – @[email protected] Jan. 2025 – @[email protected] Aug. 2025 – @[email protected] Nov. 2025 –
this post got me noticing some weird behavior, from my lemmy.ml account i can’t see any of the posts from quokk.au posters in this thread (can in other places), and from their perspective they can’t see my post (deleted by their moderator), but can see and reply to davel
I also don’t see anything in their modlog that would indicate a ban
or even that my post was removed)
even weirder, viewing my account via quokka.au shows nothing, but does for davel I wonder if this is the admin blocking me?
aha! figured it out; account deleted for ‘brigading’
This also results in the post I made complaining about misogyny from one of their mods getting entirely purged from their end.
I don’t know if it’s actually the same thing as banning someone or there is some other explanation, but deleting an account like this is really weird.
Also if it isn’t, something about
on just completely purging an account, and the ““tankie”” lemmy instances not doing that.
Also well fucking done on the page being literally nothing but “not found”, wow, quality software(/s)
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
This type of thing only seems to be meant for spammers, it’s effectively the same as being banned with remove all posts, which is an extreme response in my opinion.
I followed up with the admin on the db0 general matrix; they didn’t respond to my dms otherwise.
I have a hard time believing it wasn’t reported by the mod that I was calling out. This makes it hard to interpret it any other way than retaliation for calling them out for misogyny.
apparently posting things in hexbear/slop is grounds for a site purge, but an entire hate comm dedicated to other parts of the federation is fine.
for an ‘anarchist queer friendly’ server they seem extremely authoritarian and comfortable with misogyny
Yeah, but at least the remove option still lets your account exist. And instead it’s made clear you have been banned.
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
Congrats on being principled enough to get erased from their view, they haven’t done that for me it seems. Probably because I tend to stick to Lemmy.ml on my .ml account, but still, impressive on your part