I wonder how many of these lemmy instances have a big fed presence. I imagine that since the big reddit exodus a lot of fed accounts were made there too.

I know we like to joke about people being feds, but I do honestly wonder how many of these places have feds actively trying to control the narrative, and how many there are, and how much work is required in doing that. How do they operate? I feel like at some point, they don’t need to do much more than prodding, that the average lemmy lib will say what the feds want them to without and direct influence at all.

I would say that the fed presence here and on lemmygrad is probably much more just keeping quiet tabs on people. We all know not to fall for empty calls to violence or anything else that could incriminate us here, so they probably don’t bother to do that much (not saying they never would, just that they’d probably rather spend their time with the libs elsewhere poisoning the well against us).