Also Here on lemmy there seems to be a group (usually easily recognizable by names, profile pics all referring to USSR, DPRK, DDR, etc. etc.) of people that seem to hammer on the "west evil, Russia good" each chance they get. Especially the worldnews on lemmy ml is modded by a group of people that ban for "McCarthyism" but allow death-treats to western politicians stand. These users consistently steer conversations to Russia was forced, NATO Evil and the Ukrainians are Nazi's. This kind of conversation steering probably happens on all social media, and the cesspool that is twitter is unfortunately still used as a news source by actual decision makers.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are the obnoxious trolls from hexbear? Lemmy.world and a lot of other instances have defederated from hexbear because they were/are insufferable.

Some of the hexbear users have since then made troll accounts on other instances, but it's still a lot better than before defederation. It also helps that they tend to get their accounts banned pretty quickly because they are insufferable.

[–] Tosti 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Usually lemmy ml accounts but they might be hexbear. They have names like stalin_blablabla and xXxMaoxXx etc. But look at the modlog for worldnews on ML, they actively supress anything critical of gaza and Russia as "red scare", trivializing genocide, etc. its pretty blatant.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

/c/USA on lemmy ml is filled with them as well. That community is just about news-bashing the US a much as possible.

As far as groups go, there is a tankie "circle" with usernames ɬɧąɬ ųʂɛ ą ʄơŋɬ ʂıɱıƖąཞ ɬơ ɬɧıʂ. From what I can tell, they are mostly based in India for some reason. They have multiple user accounts they use to troll comments as well.

Honestly, I don't give a fuck if they stay over on lemmy ml. Whatever. When they start leaking into other instances is when I'll usually shut them down. (It's happened a few times on lemmy.ca, btw.)

They have a fairly solid M.O.:

Post something pro-tankie or blatant misinformation on a target instance.
Try to convince people with chains of links from super-random sites; repeat common misinformation narratives
They will attempt to prove you wrong about anything. It doesn't matter what.
Quickly devolve the conversation to insults when their "facts" are questioned.

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