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[davel investigates] 3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9915519

Comment here if you prefer, but the conversation can be over at the original post as well.

Maeve - 2w

Agent 002 and his buddy aren't there. And he of 10k names (not Auset).

002 claims they aren't using a script to scrape and repost from .ml, and it's obvious they're lying. When I accidentally uninstalled my browser from sleep dep, I had to make new accounts here and lefty news, and from the thread I made about the modlog, it suddenly clicked why the admin accused me of lying when I was able to recover that password. So I think they are 002 but who really knows what's going on with them. Feds or not, they're deeply disturbed.

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davel - 2w

I don’t know who you’re referring to by he of 10K names.

002 isn’t on the list because he doesn’t seem to fit the pattern. He seems to be doing his own personal vendetta thing. And as often happens, his own words betray him: https://lemmy.world/comment/17822023

No, not a bot, I explicitly didn’t want to automate this at all so every one of my posts has been manually done by my hands. The most I do is notifications of new posts from .ml based off their RSS feed

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Maeve - 2w

So many accounts and so prolific! No way that's not automated. The monk guy, he's alternating between conservative and socialist spaces. Idk if he was lying or not, but he posted once he reported to the feds people who posted ill will toward the current US admin. I quit interacting at all and block any account I discover is theirs, to avoid interacting.

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davel [he/him] - 2w

He’s full of shit. His politics are pure ego of the moment. He’s full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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davel [he/him] - 2w

Seriously, check out his profile. He’s like a straight edge sovcit. It’s all about him and his brave stance in the face of persecution by Lemmy NPCs.

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Maeve - 2w

Tbf they do pick on him. I'm saying sometimes mental illness is induced, encouraged, exacerbated by bigots. If he's truthful, his skin is a darker hue and he's enby, but also misogynistic af. Also a product of LDS upbringing. He needs care, but what are the chances he can access it without losing everything, including the roof over his head? If he's truthful.

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davel [he/him] - 2w

Huh. You know way more about him than me.

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Maeve - 2w

I'm not saying that's true. That's based on what he's posted.

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Maeve - 2w

Ack

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haui - 2w

I'm in the picture!

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Maeve - 6day

Has hotznplotzn gotten a new username? They've not shown up in my feed yesterday or today on another instance (I browse by local, here). I noticed Sepia creating new accounts on other instances, though.

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davel - 6day

Has hotznplotzn gotten a new username?

Not that I know of. Every once in a while I check the communities they frequent to see if a new account has become active.

africa@baraza.africa
australia@aussie.zone
britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca
buyeuropean@feddit.uk
canada@lemmy.ca
china@sopuli.xyz
climate@slrpnk.net
cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
dach@feddit.org
earthscience@mander.xyz
economy@lemmy.world
electriccars@lemmy.ca
electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
europe@feddit.org
europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
evs@feddit.uk
globalnews@lemmy.zip
humanrights@lemmy.sdf.org
medicine@mander.xyz
podcasts@feddit.org
russia@sopuli.xyz
science@mander.xyz
technology@lemmy.world
technology@lemmy.zip
technology@slrpnk.net
unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
usa@midwest.social
world@lemmy.world
world@quokk.au
worldnews@lemmy.sdf.org

I noticed Sepia creating new accounts on other instances, though.

Those other Sepia@ accounts were created in 2023 and haven’t been used.

At this point it must be that the mods of these communities know what’s going on and choose to host them in spite of it—or because of it 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇪🇺

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Maeve - 6day

At least one has been removing posts from agent 2. I haven't noticed the other users posting there and I don't have an account on their instance; I think that host doesn't much care for Russia, but don't often make openly hostile posts that I've seen (but critical, and that's fine, I just think they could criticize more valid things, but it's what it is) but I do appreciate their effort.

I only have four accounts, one largely goes unused, the other gets medium use, them this and another. The other getting more ridiculous by the day with blech, but I sort by all, so there's that.

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davel - 6day

They never post to lemmy.ml anymore, because almost a year ago I called them out and banned them. Even though they were unbanned 10 months and have created new accounts since, they know better than to post there.

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Maeve - 6day

Every little bit helps.

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