3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts - Lemmygrad
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What they seem to have in common is: - Way more posts than comments. - Almost exclusively posting news articles. - The vast majority of the articles are critical of Russia or China. - Virtually always posting to the same few communities. Often there’s overlap in the communities the accounts target. - Consistent weekly output. | Username | Start | End | |-|-|-| | tardigrada@beehaw.org [https://beehaw.org/u/tardigrada@beehaw.org] | May 2022 | Dec. 2024 | | 0x815@feddit.de [https://lemmy.ml/u/0x815@feddit.de] | Apr. 2023 | Jun. 2024 | | thelucky8@beehaw.org [https://lemmy.ml/u/thelucky8@beehaw.org] | Apr. 2024 | Jan. 2025 | | 0x815@feddit.org [https://feddit.org/u/0x815@feddit.org] | Jun. 2024 | Dec. 2024 | | Anyone@slrpnk.net [https://slrpnk.net/u/Anyone@slrpnk.net] | Jan. 2025 | Apr. 2025 | | @randomname@scribe.disroot.org [/u/randomname@scribe.disroot.org] [https://scribe.disroot.org/u/randomname] | Jan. 2025 | – | | @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org [/u/Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org] [https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/Hotznplotzn] | Jan. 2025 | – | | @Scotty@scribe.disroot.org [/u/Scotty@scribe.disroot.org] [https://scribe.disroot.org/u/Scotty] | Aug. 2025 | – | | @Sepia@mander.xyz [/u/Sepia@mander.xyz] [https://mander.xyz/u/Sepia] | Nov. 2025 | – | |tardigrada@scribe.disroot.org [https://scribe.disroot.org/u/tardigrade]|Nov 2025|-| — FYI, @haui@lemmygrad.ml [/u/haui@lemmygrad.ml] [https://lemmygrad.ml/u/haui], you had this to say back in June on !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com] [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/europe], before the post was removed by a mod: >OP is one of their propagandists from the looks of it. Please look at the post history and report if you see a pattern. [https://archive.ph/2025.11.30-003310/https://indigo-roll-mpkh.pagedrop.io/%23comment-19410323#comment-19410323] — [Edited to update links for thelucky8@beehaw.org and and the archived post] [Edited to add new account, tardigrada@scribe.disroot.org]

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  • davel@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Has hotznplotzn gotten a new username?

    Not that I know of. Every once in a while I check the communities they frequent to see if a new account has become active.

    africa@baraza.africa
australia@aussie.zone
britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca
buyeuropean@feddit.uk
canada@lemmy.ca
china@sopuli.xyz
climate@slrpnk.net
cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
dach@feddit.org
earthscience@mander.xyz
economy@lemmy.world
electriccars@lemmy.ca
electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
europe@feddit.org
europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
evs@feddit.uk
globalnews@lemmy.zip
humanrights@lemmy.sdf.org
medicine@mander.xyz
podcasts@feddit.org
russia@sopuli.xyz
science@mander.xyz
technology@lemmy.world
technology@lemmy.zip
technology@slrpnk.net
unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
usa@midwest.social
world@lemmy.world
world@quokk.au
worldnews@lemmy.sdf.org

    I noticed Sepia creating new accounts on other instances, though.

    Those other Sepia@ accounts were created in 2023 and haven’t been used.

    At this point it must be that the mods of these communities know what’s going on and choose to host them in spite of it—or because of it 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇪🇺

    • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      At least one has been removing posts from agent 2. I haven’t noticed the other users posting there and I don’t have an account on their instance; I think that host doesn’t much care for Russia, but don’t often make openly hostile posts that I’ve seen (but critical, and that’s fine, I just think they could criticize more valid things, but it’s what it is) but I do appreciate their effort.

      I only have four accounts, one largely goes unused, the other gets medium use, them this and another. The other getting more ridiculous by the day with blech, but I sort by all, so there’s that.

      • davel@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        They never post to lemmy.ml anymore, because almost a year ago I called them out and banned them. Even though they were unbanned 10 months and have created new accounts since, they know better than to post there.