Just like Facebook, Friendica also has a sort of activity center where you can see all previous notifications. It was ~2 years ago when I first discovered Lemmy. Back then, .ml was the most active instance, with Beehaw on the rise as well. I remember I started by posting in non-political communities at first, and nothing bad happened. But the moment I started to show them how brainwashed I was by Western Imperialist propaganda (sic), they immediately resorted to downvoting all my posts and comments like crazy - be them political or not. Below there’s a screenshot with my beloved Russian Government shill living somewhere in the West, Yogthos gave me a downvote (dislike) to a post I did in a test community. Don’t even know why they bothered, since neither Lemmy and especially Friendica do not have imaginary points for activities on posts and comments. But there’s that, lol.
I can kind of understand how tankies from the U.S. or U.K, who don’t seem to really comprehend what they’re supporting, make it their entire personality to be contrarian and so far left, they wind up swinging back around to the right defending Xi’s Uyghur camps or Putin’s invasion of Ukraine repeating propaganda like “who knows who really started the war?”
However, I’m confused why a Russian who genuinely views themself as a radical leftist, would support a police state loving nationalist oligarch like Putin?
They even use the whole “Ukrainians are Nazis” talking point, which is a JD Vance talking point!