this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Seems it's only obvious to you. You are the one that did more "spamming" by following that user around accusing them of spamming.
YDM.
So you can't define what you think "spam" is and you're desperately skipping over the fact that they're literally posting shit faster than they could read it?
If you were saying any of that in good faith I'd be worried for you. Now I just pity you for the bad faith.
They are posting a mix of news articles and pictures to only relevant communities. The account also comments in a way that seems very human. I'm not sure what you're talking about. That's not spam.
And as someone else already suggested: If you don't like their content, block the account. You're very much alone with your vendetta against this person.
So it's not a newsbot, it's a person. Bots which post certain publications are different.
This guy chooses what to spam and spams it.
You don't care about [Russian] misinformation and disinformation?
I'm as pro-Ukraine as you can get and thanks to you I went through the post history of the accused user. I don't see a problem.
Feel free to provide some examples.
So you don't care about misinfo and disinfo, or you don't think it exists?
I'm sorry, but I can't teach you years of media literacy in one comment.
It's painfully obvious, and if you're pretending not to see it, you're either lying or you're beyond my help.
You guys remember that lemvotes exists, right?
So you can't provide any examples. That's what I thought.
His whole user profile is the example.
This is the age old "they're not posting 'GLORY TO THE SOVIET UNION AND RUSSIA AND PUTIN'", so Russian disinfo doesn't exist.
I remember years ago first joining Lemmy having this "chat" over and over again with the pathetic coward @davel@lemmy.ml
He goes on about how he's definitely an American (while saying things like "reality has a known Russian propaganda bias", etc etc), posts against the US, pretend Uighur genocide isn't happening, pretends Ukraine is full of Nazis, and then still pretends to be an American. He still will. He's painfully obviously a Russian douche.
There isn't any amount of evidence you can give for which a Russian would say "okay, you got me, I'm doing this for disinfo".
So either youre denying the existence of Russian disinfo, or you're just literally too stupid too see it. It's either or.
Being a propagandist, a troll, and a spammer are different things. Being two of those at the same time is uncommon, and all three is rare.
I don't think he is trolling anyone, if that's how you choose to use those words.
Pretending it's not a painfully obvious propaganda bot is a level of willfull ignorance beyond my grasp. Probably because it's not true and I don't believe a single person actually has trouble knowing what I mean, but lots of people in bad faith will pretend as if they do.