Would it be possible to ad bots like the ones from r/thedeprogram that discuss prevalent myths about Communism?

For example, the bot that talked about tiananmen square, it contained concise information that debunked common western narratives about the event.

Would this be useful though, considering lemmygrad is heavily vetted against right-wing infiltration?

Please, let me know what my fellow proles think.

  • Ancient_Egg_57@lemmygrad.mlM
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    2 days ago

    Your comment echoes something I’ve been thinking about as well.

    It wouldn’t be a problem for me to prepare similar short answers that users could rely on (just like it was possible on the old sub when typing commands such as !uyghur, for example).

    The “issue” in that case would be the audience itself, since defederation means that Lemmygrad and - by extension - this community too, are already separated from other instances where there might be more users who could benefit from those answers.

    I’m also of the opinion that the more users we can help radicalize, or encourage to think more deeply about society, the better. But on Lemmygrad, most users are already familiar with those starting points.

    I’ll make a post about this very topic tomorrow to ask the community at large for its input.

    • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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      2 days ago

      I tend to use grad as a hub for information, which I then use in more pilubluc forums and settings. However if we’re interested in facilitating people to move away from corporate social media to federated alternatives, we want them to come here ideally, and for that we must build the infrastructure to accommodate that.

      Part of that is accessible information, (I get extremely annoyed by the search function on the jerboa app), along with welcoming communities. Sometimes people can be a bit quick to go on the attack I’ve noticed, though it’s not exactly unwarranted.