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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 40 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Ever see a story in the sidebar, and know before clicking on it who posted it?

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's a tone thing.

There's a few regular article posters than either post articles with a certain tone to the headline or they editorialize the post title to fit their narrative. It's similar to how you can notice how somebody you're familiar with writes and uses language and can identify potential alt/sock puppet accounts from them.

Due to this I've come to believe that these people are astro-turfers with a disengenous agenda.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm running on mbin; it shows randomly selected stories / random communities in the sidebar (which I think Lemmy doesn't do) with no additional details besides the title.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The Community Info. Depending on the website layout it is often displayed on the side of the screen, as a sidebar next to the main content. It usually has things like community rules. Some layouts and mobile apps refer to it as the sidebar, community description, or the community info.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Another trumper pretending to be a far-lefter.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everyone to your left is a trumper. Got it.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope. That’s not what I said. Maybe learn to understand what people are saying before you try to edit their comments and parrot nonsense back to them.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s not what I said.

That's all you ever say.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago