Which leaves one wondering why this dozen or so communities tolerate them.

apartheid exclusively refers to a political system from South Africa

Ackchyually it’s only called apartheid if comes from the southern region of Africa; otherwise it’s a sparkling segregation.

you can’t betray your values by trading with an imperialist authoritarian nation like China

We know who the the imperialists are, and it ain’t the Qin dynasty.

“Forward defense ring,” not Orwellian at all.

You couldn’t help but derail the conversation to one of your only two interests: China bad and Russia bad 🤣

Scotty has a posse. It’s been going on for over three years.

I guess I’m not the only one who notices.

I’ve been trying to keep track of these sock puppet accounts for for quite a while. There may be more than one person involved, working together. I think there was originally just one person, and then two; I dont know how many now. Some things the accounts have in common are:

• They tend to target the same small group of communities.
• They post more than they comment, usually a lot more.
• They post predominantly anti-China & anti-Russia content.

Some currently active accounts:

• randomname@scribe.disroot.org | Jan. 2025 -
• Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org | Jan. 2025 -
• schizoidman@lemmy.zip | Jun. 2025 -
• Scotty@scribe.disroot.org | Aug. 2-25 -
• Sepia@mander.xyz | Nov. 2025 -

Some retired accounts:

• tardigrada@beehaw.org | May 2022 - Dec. 2024
• 0x815@feddit.de | Apr. 2023 - Jun. 2024
• thelucky8@beehaw.org | Apr. 2024 - Jan. 2025
• 0x815@feddit.org | Jun. 2024 - Dec. 2024
• Anyone@slrpnk.net Jan. | 2025 - Apr. 2025