It unfortunately is very much the intent, but they don’t want to say that up front because no one would join.

Honestly they don’t seem to be bothered about denying human rights violations they seem to think they’re a good thing.

People as deep into the ideology as people on here are think the dog whistles are signposts.

Most Reddit posts referring to lemmy direct people to lemmy.ml it’s effectively the landing page of the platform and if that landing page is being used to recruit people into a shitty authoritarian ideology then that taints the entire platform.

Follow the link, that’s happening on lemmy.ml not lemmygrad.ml.

Follow the link and tell me that isn’t straight up blur the lines recruitment BS.

This is happening on lemmy.ml I can cope with there being instances for tankies, what’s bothering me is one of the main instances pretending their not so that they can push straight up recruitment shit at people who don’t know.

I’m on another instance but it’s making me rather uncomfortable that a lot of the traffic is happening on an instance that seems like it’s 90 CCP members and Russian trolls.

The way things are on there I can’t even tell if this is just a joke.

WFT is wrong with you?

Plus the 1991 game Lemmings.

This type of advertising is the death-knell of any site, because at that point you’re interacting with an advert with some extra elements rather than a site with ads.

If they were worried data being scooped up for AI training, they would have approached it differently. What they did was target 3rd party apps to drive people to their app so they can get tracking data and push ads.

Some of them seem pretty deep in, not sure they have the most rounded world view.

I wouldn’t take it as face value, it reads more like a deliberate leak to the press, than an actual email to employees.

Not that warming people not to identify themselves as Reddit employees isn’t a sensible message, emotions are high and it only takes one crazy person.

One of the people I was taking too was complaining that people were surprised that it was tanky when it was “obvious” from the domain name that it was Marxist Leninist.

Nah. I think the “.ml” means Marxist Leninist to them. At least that’s what one of the tanky types I chatted to on lemmy.ml said.

You clearly are not /u/spez

No this is something big companies do all the time to test how well it does with a subset of customers before rolling it out fully.

Political? For everyone outside of America that’s just common sense.