It’s unbelievable how vocal the minority of conservatives on reddit have suddenly gotten in the one sub where a large demographic of important voters often interact. Hmmm. Coincidence?
They even try to do this on Lemmy. I’ve seen a few accounts recently that were obviously created with the sole purpose of spreading right-wing propaganda.
As someone who is routinely accused of being a bad actor, I have to say I find this speculation to be somewhat paranoid.
I think people generally overestimate the commonality of their own perspective.
There are several things that lots of bad actors and bots say frequently enough that if someone says it, it may be faster to assume paid shill than to take the extra time to vet someone or give their opinion real thought.
This extends to more than just politics.
I’m sorry you’ve had a bad experience. Nevertheless, I think that a certain basic skepticism is important in social media, because it is simply a fact that many interest groups on the internet are fighting for sovereignty of interpretation and use enormous resources to assert themselves - even with very questionable methods. This of course makes it difficult to build trust and have an open discourse. The advantage of Lemmy, however, is that at least the platform itself does not interfere too much, like Meta, X or TikTok do. Therefore, it seems to me that there is a much higher probability that you will be heard with your opinion, message or whatever, if you can provide good arguments for your point of view. Sure, there are some viewpoints that users reject despite good arguments, but from my Lemmy experience so far, that seems to me to be the exception rather than the rule.
There are still plenty of people that have gone so far left that they crossed the prime meridian and landed on the right.
what is this enlightened centrist bullshit. Horseshoe theory is bunk
