We all have a narrative and try to convince others; that’s what dialogue in forums is all about. The difference is whether it’s done in good faith, trying to debate, learn and share, or in bad faith, diverting, deceiving and pushing misleading debates to promote hidden ideas.

It is not always easy to distinguish one from another, and organized groups take advantage of that.

Is Lemmy important enough to attract bots with malicious political intentions? A victory for us.

On a more serious note, I don’t know of any truly effective way to prevent that beyond sheer, hard work and restraint, and even then it’s never easy to distinguish bad intention of legitimate dissenting opinions.

Adding up the spending of all EU members, we spend more than China; we don’t even need to spend more, we just need to unify spending.