Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.
Same as instance rules, plus:
hilariouschaos’s most active and presumed lead site admin Alice makes many posts and also mods numerous communities, including https://hilariouschaos.com/c/diedsuddenly . This community sidebar’s first assumption for a person dying is that it is due to vaccines, rather than literally anything else.
Well yeah. Doesn't it have direct lineage to exploding heads etc? In my experience it's quite far right/fash friendly.
I hadn’t heard about any connection between the two?
That’s a very helpful tool, thank you. The admins of the instances which have condemned explodingheads should be made aware of its rebrand into hilariouschaos and give it the same response.
Full disclosure, it's something I remember being said. Got no direct proof of it ATM. But there are a lot of rightoids and adjacent on that instance. I have it filtered iirc.
I'm too scared to look it up, what's exploding heads?
It was a far right lemmy instance that everyone almost immediately de-Federated with. Due to misogyny, bigotry, trolling etc.
Oh okay, so normal "traditional values" behavior. I thought it was gonna be images of literal headshots.
The old internet was such a horrible place for unpleasant surprises, every once in a while I suddenly become scared about reliving trauma.
Am I showing my age by calling it voat 2.0? It was a "free speech" instance that was chuddy as hell.
I have always just assumed that literally every post on that instance is is coming from Alice, whether as themselves or as a couple different alts. And all of them belong to exploding heads or whatever they were called back in the day. Kinda surprised everyone still federates with hc if I’m being honest. Just trash posts or blatant misinformation.
Hilarious Chaos is the rebirth of Exploding Heads, after they quit Lemmy for I think Nostr but then hardly anyone followed so they tried to come back.
Odd how those "deeply held beliefs" are a lot less meaningful to them when there's nobody around to make upset.
Yeah, that instance seems to be full of American right wing nonsense.
It's always been a weird (in a bad way) instance. It feels like there's 1-3 people total just switching accounts and talking to themselves
I'd be absolutely shocked if it wasn't one person.
That one went in the defederation bin as soon as it came up.
~~How should one contact one's instance Administrators in order to bring this to their attention?~~
Ok. just checked, my instance already blocked them, phew.
It looks like a parody? Like "91 year old died suddenly" "71 year old died suddenly" "53 year old who has been battling cancer for several years died suddenly"
No, they're that dumb and they've always been that dumb.
tHe vEntIlaTorS aRe a DeAtH sEntEnCe type dummies.
Terrance yeakey