The suspicious one to me is lemmy.world. Trying to get people to make comments you disagree with makes you look sketchy as well. Not saying you’re a bot, but you do definitely want to make it easier for bots, and to not allow any descent…decent…decadenent? Holy crap, I’ve no idea how to spell that word.
I’m from the area. I got like 5min into the game on launch, and had to put it down, as it literally hit way too close to home. Someday, I would love to revisit it.
The advice I give is, be the adult you wish you had when you were young.
This time, without trains on time though.
I’m fucking dead inside. I’ve learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
It’s gotten to a point where you not only have to read the entire article, as the meat of the story is hidden in like the 12th paragraph, but you also have to learn to read between the lines. Like when that story came out about marines dying in a helicopter in a part of Africa. The story wasn’t that Marines died, the story was that we had Marines in that part of the world, and then it’s on you to figure out why there are Marines there, instead of that article just explaining it to readers. And now journalists in western media also have to learn how to write between the lines so they don’t get canned by the people that own and sponsor our media.
Haven’t really noticed hidden bots on lemmy, other than obvious ones that are open about it, but I have noticed some political agenda accounts I’m suspicious of. I’m guessing it’s gotten better, but pro-Israel is an instant red flag to me online. I’m currently experiencing with them now. Bringing up the Hannibal Directive seems to be a touchy subject.