• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    You’re right, except for this:

    There are no potential-Trumpers here.

    Technically, there is no reason to assume that. Pro-[anything] can create an account on any federated instance and participate in all available communities, not necessarily in an obvious way.

    For example, some days ago someone created an account on a federated instance, exclusively to respond to a comment of mine from 1 year ago.

    This it still the Internet, even if a somewhat calmer part of it.

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      Right, but you’re talking about someone who is already pro -Trump. I’m talking about people who are undecided, but potentially pro-Trump.

      Trolls most definitely infiltrate Left spaces, but undecided (which in practice means uninterested) voters who lean rightwards don’t, and they’re the ones that might be swayed towards Trump by arguments against a given Democrat candidate.

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        Hm, not sure of any of that. Since it’s a federated instance, people from many different spaces can read and be targeted by anything in here. Thinking from a manipulation point of view, it’s a platform that goes beyond the instance’s orientation.