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I've opened Lemmy today to lots of anti Canadian sentiment on any recent comments about how messed up 'murica is and it's constant attacks on Canadian sovereignty.

Don't get sucked in. Let them yell into a void. The online campaign has begun in earnest on Lemmy and it's time to point it out and recognise it for what it is.

These are not real people. They are actors trying to affect our decisions as always happens when American exceptionalism is challenged. Our government had the balls to stand up and say no. We have the balls to do the same. They do not like it and will attack you for it.

Don't fall for the bait.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 day ago (29 children)

Find a Lemmy app that has user tagging (I use Voyager, and previously Connect) and when you see these users make a note of each one with a red tag so they stand out when you're browsing.

You'll start to see the bastards turning up in all kinds of conversations as well as posting ridiculous shit. That's what I did with the Russian/American trolls/bots during the american election. Very enlightening to see in a political thread who the repeat offender shit-disturbers are so you can down vote, argue with, or report them instead of blocking them and allowing their infection to spread.

Tagging is handy for nice people as well; the community of people around you on Lemmy starts to look more familiar, smaller, and friendlier than you realize, and dick heads become easier to spot.

[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How do you use the tagging feature? I'm on Voyager too, when I click on a user profile I don't see any tagging options. Only block and send message.

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Go to Settings->User Tags -> Enable User Tags.

Then you’ll see the option in the user profile.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

How'd you tag yourself? After enabling the feature, under my profile I only see "Mod Logs".

Edit: also thanks for showing that I can separate the vote counts, I clearly haven't explored the app enough 😅.

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I long press a user name to edit and set tags, including my own!

I feel you though, I never used to bother too much with settings and purposefully stuck to defaults unless I had an issue, but since I've been using more FOSS apps I'm finding my defaults mantra to be very limiting. Many times I can have a great experience with ten minutes of tinkering I wasn't willing to do before.

[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

Ahh, I gotcha, now that is a useful shortcut. Thank you!

Hahaha yeah, I've been seeing that with FOSS apps too as I've been slowly diving into them more. The current climate has really been quite the impetus.

[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

Hot damn, you're a gem, thank you!! That's super useful. :)

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