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I think we all know that the accuracy of your statement is not what's getting downvoted.
Nah, I'm with them. The average Lemmy user is stupid as fuck and willing to believe anything that even vaguely conforms to their biases, and I 100% believe the majority of upvotes are from people who thought this screenshot is real.
Several weeks ago, there was this post in a news community to a BBC News article. It was a real article; no tricks, correct headline. But the link was a 404. When I found it, it was upvoted about 20–0. I downvoted it as obviously nonfunctional but also commented remarking that it's a 404 and giving the OP the correct link. When I came back to that post a couple hours later hoping to upvote a fixed link, the link was unchanged, it was upvoted 50–1 (my downvote), and it had one comment (mine) upvoted 1–0. (Edit: I checked, to preemptively clarify, that this wasn't a "me" problem.)
The lack of scrutiny Lemmy applies as a collective is fucking appalling, and the level of introspection they have about it is somehow even worse.
This but instead of "Lemmy user" it's "person".
Meh. It's worth noticing that, in the modern era, everything is an echo chamber. All the more reason to socialize in person and reduce interactions in semi anonymous places like Lemmy, Reddit, etc
I agree and I've noticed it it's gotten worse over the past 6 months. I figured there was another reddit exodus.
so, this kind of shit stirring happens regularly on the english speaking internet before US elections. I've become less and less convinced it's organic.
Oh so you've noticed the uptick in "don't vote" posts, too?
Joking aside, I remember that one economics professor (I went to a creepy religious university in Utah. You know the one) that took weird trips to Russia and always had the loud "voting is a waste of time because marginally only one vote matters and what are the odds of you being that marginal vote so don't waste your time" bullshit that really appeals to the underdeveloped libertarian mind. (whenever I asked him if he voted he said yes. Funny that) He works for a "think" tank that advises the Krasnov administration now.
I wish we could trick the elderly into not voting...
Hey, Gran was as reliable an anti republican vote as I am. Grenade Grampa not so much (we never called him that to his face) but he was very proud of his brain damage for some reason. Like he'd yell about it to the moon. No I have not made any of this up even the weird names are real my life is weird. That movie Big Fish is about people like me
My grandma was a staunch socialist but unfortunately an overwhelming majority of her peers vote(d) red
you're not entirely wrong
If it's something they don't want to hear or requires effort to confirm, downvote!
reported because shut up
I get the frustration and I don’t think it’s fair to downvote somebody just because they don’t conform to your opinion.
But with the overhyped shitshow LLMs have been so far, I also understand the hate against them. I mean, while not being real, this screenshot seems quite believable, because any user has seen something like this already.
No, but it is fair to downvote people that are too stupid to recognize clearly fake shit.