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[–] randint@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know right! How come there are so, so many people defending China here? I thought they were the minority. Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The issue is there are a much higher percentage here because brigading wasn't allowed on reddit so they'd be banned for this type of activity. They come here and can do what they want, which is fine as long as it doesn't hurt other people doing what they want, which in this case is arguably happening because it clutters the comments with the same thing repeated over and over, and they are organized so it's all up voted. This doesn't make them the majority opinion though. It makes them the organized opinion. They are not the majority by any means, but they will make sure to come to China's defence whenever it's mentioned, where others won't bother.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah! It's kind of sketchy how most hexbear.net comments here have >10 upvotes

edit: it's also sketchy that over 95% of comments on this post are from hexbear.net, while on the average Lemmy post (not on lemmy.world) there would only be less than 20%

[–] EremesZorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's going to be up to the users to run them out.