I do think anyone on Lemmy is probably smarter than anyone on Reddit. I was browsing a conservative sub today and while they were very few comments, most of them disagreed with the general direction of the Trump administration.
r/conservative is also notorious for shadow banning and banning anyone who expresses wrongthink. They’ve only got a few hundred real posters left. Everyone else is a bot or paid troll.
I do think anyone on Lemmy is probably smarter than anyone on Reddit. I was browsing a conservative sub today and while they were very few comments, most of them disagreed with the general direction of the Trump administration.
I don’t think user intelligence has as much to to with it as foreign interference and astroturfing campaigns, since its a larger platform
r/conservative is also notorious for shadow banning and banning anyone who expresses wrongthink. They’ve only got a few hundred real posters left. Everyone else is a bot or paid troll.
And the bots. Don’t forget the bots.