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[–] Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Call it a tinfoil hat, but there have been a dozen posts centring around close parent offspring relationships, sharing a bed in a new flat with dad, dad buying an expensive edible flower bouquet for daughter, and many others. All of which seem to garner a lot of attention, then get deleted. These posts have been popping up over the year. Also worth mentioning, these post have soon been deleted when questioned on validity or its romantic connotations.

I had been collecting screenshots but the phone I was using is broken.

Anyway, with the deleted post in question, the response style of op seemed similar to other now deleted posts and I believe these posts are fake and are coming from one person/ai/org.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There are a lot of people and bots alike who use forums like this, Reddit mostly, but also smaller ones, to push narratives, to experiment in pushing narratives, to probe how easy it is to change perceptions among a select group of people about a topic.

It may not even be apparent what the goal is or why people or agencies are going through this much trouble, but there are complicated interconnections that a lot of people are trying to explore every day and set up intersecting narratives for tomorrow.

Not all of them are going to be at all successful, meaningful or even make sense. That's part of it too, to see how people respond to almost random new narratives and topics becoming more prevalent.

Basically, trust no one, believe nothing. Go outside, make friends, kill your social media, be social in real life, exercise and stop spending money. If we all did this the bot-farms and corruption would dry out overnight.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

For what it's worth, I was skeptical of it too, but I still gave it a real answer. A lot of times even if I think something is probably fake I still try to answer it genuinely. Unless I'm like >90% sure it's fake.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It was fake. Obvious from how the texts were structured. It was also from a brand new account.

I thought Lemmy would be better than reddit for spotting clearly fake shit, but pretty much everyone in the comments bought it hook, line, and sinker.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your average person is pretty god damn gullible, and while most on Lemmy think they're smarter than the average person, they're not.

Except for me, obviously

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

Post deleted. Account deleted. It can only mean one thing.

He finally got laid.

Goodbye hero. You will be missed.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That can only mean, they're married by now.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm writing this message 5 minutes after yours. They have 3 children now.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They have 20 grandkids by now. Lovely.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] phonics@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Im writing this message 5 eons after yours. They repopulated the galaxy after the great filter.

[–] zeropointone@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What makes you think that anything about this was real?

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What make you think it's a real question?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What makes you think you’re real?

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Gesundheit.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] 667@lemmy.radio 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago

Oh I know I'm a bot

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Surely nobody lies on the internet

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's on Lemmy. Why would anyone lie on Lemmy

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[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What makes you think it was fake?

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[–] Bricriu@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Explanation for those of us out of the loop?

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There was a post a post in this comm on Tuesday.

Title something like 'should I be embarassed'

Pic was a screenshot of text messages: Dad says, "You're 22, you've never had a girlfriend, I've arranged a date for you on Friday [i.e. the 15th]. She's 27. Pics to follow. No objections." The son was posting asking advice should he go or not.

The post is now deleted. We wanna know how the date went.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I found a federated copy of the post: https://m.lemmy.hostux.net/posts/l.hostux.net/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/comments/386931

The post's text is gone and OP's account is deleted, but the username and full discussion are there.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm interested in how'd find such a thing as a "federated copy." Do you just go on a federated instance and search for the same post? Or copy the ID number in the URL? And how'd you choose the right instance, luck?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It seems like a bug in this case. Generally if a post is deleted on its home instance it is supposed to tell it to be deleted on others. Maybe they deleted this account instead of deleting the post and this made it act funky.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Meaning it depends on the instance what they'd do? Seems like an obvious thing to test in testing phase

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're welcome to contribute testing effort. It's an open source, community driven project.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Ye I know I just meant it'd seem like an obvious thing to test. But then again, there are a thousand such cases, probably

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Sadly it was much more tame: search engines. They've been crawling Lemmy for a couple years now. I remembered just enough to get hits on that post from a couple instances. Luckily one didn't delete it when OP scrapped the original. I'm a bit curious myself why that is, but in any case it gives us a backup of the post.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Lmfao my older brother is about to get into an arranged marriage (as in the consensual type), this is much more tame in comparison.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I didn't click on it and thought it was just a meme

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure Dad was using his son as a proxy.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Only deleted the post, not his account? If so, just message him and ask?

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago

I don't remember the account name

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Account was also deleted. He probably was too embarrassed

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I would like a follow up too!

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