It's not as clever yet, thought, as the demographic is rather small. I was amazed that reddits' world news the comments were almost uniformly not only anti Hamas but pro Israel. I mean not to pick a side here, and not saying theres not astroturfing here. However there's more diversity of position, whereas the reddit thread felt almost strangly like everyone was just saying stuff, but not carrying any meaning. Felt like the last scene of body snatchers where even the protagonist turns out to be snatched, in a way.

The amount of sophistication is lower. There are people holding extreme positions but quite often they self identify and aren't state sponsored most of the time.

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 11 months ago

I agree and have noticed the same things. I don't think Lemmy is big enough to attract the state sponsors yet like Reddit is but it will probably be susceptible to the same issues when it is.