southsamurai

At least that one is believable, if poorly executed as fiction.

But, being real, part of the fun of that sub was playing along. If you paid attention to the average level of bullshit, it was hard to have any entertainment out of it all. So you go in knowing that the story is bullshit, but you pretend it's real, or real enough for the purpose of discussing the idea behind a bad story.

The school thing, it's so poorly done it's impossible to suspend belief and go along. But the "name it after your brother" one, people actually do that kind of thing, so even though it's poorly done (or so over dramatized that if it happened, it didn't happen like that), you can still imagine the scenario and explore the boundaries it suggests

Well, that's how I used the sub for sure, and I know people that have said the same, so not everyone is buying the stories whole cloth

Utter horseshit

The fact that they're using the term drop charges, when the kid hasn't been arrested shows they're making it up.

A principal is going to have enough education they wouldn't have used that term in relation to an in school disciplinary issue because it would leave them open to trouble.

I don't believe it, though they would

Reports don't just go to mods, they go to admins as well. And you can usually contact admins in other ways on most instances.

Eh, I just had a run-in with them again.

Trying to get every instance to ban them is a little crazy tbh, and I think you're right that their entire goal is a blend of trolling and misinformation.

It isn't crazy because they're acting in bad faith. It's crazy because just lemmy is already too big to try and organize a lemmy wide ban. Trying to get a fediverse wide one applied ain't happening.

Best you can do is report them for the spamming in the instances they do it on.

That's odd

Don't believe everything you read or hear is what it amounts to. You're getting highly selective, heavily filtered news, not the lives of actual people.

I dunno. I'm fairly far left, and moderately radicalized, and I get plenty of pushback. And from both those further left, and those that are US left (which is more centric overall).

Yeah, you don't get as many right wingers, but they do exist, and they tend to be willing to speak up. On the less crazy instances, they don't even get shut down by admins/mods, though they'll get down voted all to hell.

But I can't say that lemmy as a whole is that echoey. It just leans more left than any other form of social media.

Also, it's nice to know I'm above average ^in^thailand

The image is too small

I mean, it is entertaining watching a train wreck (in the slang form, not the literal).

This is all part of the armed gay agenda.