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[–]magnora7[S] 32 insightful - 2 fun32 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

No worries, it's just part of the job.

Yes these same things are affecting ruqqus and notabug and many others. It's gotten to the point where if you try to start a forum (especially a modern reddit-style one), this style of cultural attack just part of the territory. It didn't used to be like this 15 years ago, maybe even it wasn't like this 5 years ago, but it is now.

Alternative forums need to learn from each other, to build the best defenses against these cultural attacks, because this problem is becoming more and more of a "thing", much like DDOS attacks. On average Saidit gets DDOS attacked literally 9 days out of 10, so the fact they'd be doing cultural attacks around the clock would also be unsurprising.

It could be any number of people or organizations doing this. It's very hard to tell. That's part of what makes the attacks so hard to stop. They're all just normal users until they show their true colors

[–]bobbobbybob 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Seemed to pick up around the time the saudis built their internet ops division, imo. about 2016

[–]magnora7[S] 24 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Interesting. I've had run-ins with JIDF before. And I've had run-ins with ShareBlue and Cambridge Analytica as well. Didn't know the saudis had a branch too. I guess everyone will soon, every country and every corporation. It'll be the new "native advertising" to hijack forums and sway minds by creating false consensus. What a future to look forward to /s

[–]Exconduckducktor 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wish I wasn't alone in my friend circle in being aware of this madness

[–]soundsalad 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Just curious - how do you know they were from JIDF, ShareBlue and Cambridge?

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well the JIDF ones are because they literally put a JIDF flag on a sub they stole from me through a fraudulent attack through redditrequests https://www.reddit.com/r/undeleteundelete/

The Shareblue ones are because they run most of the political aspects of reddit, and Cambridge Analytica because they run thedonald.win

[–]whistlepig 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It was definitely happening 5 years ago... but its definitely worse and they've gotten much better at it.

[–]magnora7[S] 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I guess 5 years ago I wasn't an admin or mod, and was only seeing it from the user perspective still, which makes it not seem as bad.

I miss that 1998 internet when it was just people talking to people, and these forum-destroying tactics didn't really exist.