Was it the north Korean flag that made them downvote it, or are they just fervent supporters of the largest scale contemporary genocides present in modern earth, within Sudan, within Palestine?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

The latter. Western supremacists who hate everyone the US government tells them to.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is the .world instance responsible for the dislikes on all of these memes?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

It's dead or empty accounts from a lot of different servers, not just lemmy.world. I just banned like 20 of them.

They use api tools to target certain accounts for downvoting.

Content manipulation on the fediverse is gonna be a big issue for the foreseeable future, especially to push pro-US foreign policy points.