He’s deleted the post now.

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    Post deleted. Account deleted. It can only mean one thing.

    He finally got laid.

    Goodbye hero. You will be missed.

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    Call it a tinfoil hat, but there have been a dozen posts centring around close parent offspring relationships, sharing a bed in a new flat with dad, dad buying an expensive edible flower bouquet for daughter, and many others. All of which seem to garner a lot of attention, then get deleted. These posts have been popping up over the year. Also worth mentioning, these post have soon been deleted when questioned on validity or its romantic connotations.

    I had been collecting screenshots but the phone I was using is broken.

    Anyway, with the deleted post in question, the response style of op seemed similar to other now deleted posts and I believe these posts are fake and are coming from one person/ai/org.

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      Not that surprising, people who venture onto the fediverse are typically more paranoid and will be much more likely than a redditor to delete posts. I’ve done that a lot, and I also notice a lot of comments getting deleted after like a month.

      Its just how fediverse is.

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      For what it’s worth, I was skeptical of it too, but I still gave it a real answer. A lot of times even if I think something is probably fake I still try to answer it genuinely. Unless I’m like >90% sure it’s fake.

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      There are a lot of people and bots alike who use forums like this, Reddit mostly, but also smaller ones, to push narratives, to experiment in pushing narratives, to probe how easy it is to change perceptions among a select group of people about a topic.

      It may not even be apparent what the goal is or why people or agencies are going through this much trouble, but there are complicated interconnections that a lot of people are trying to explore every day and set up intersecting narratives for tomorrow.

      Not all of them are going to be at all successful, meaningful or even make sense. That’s part of it too, to see how people respond to almost random new narratives and topics becoming more prevalent.

      Basically, trust no one, believe nothing. Go outside, make friends, kill your social media, be social in real life, exercise and stop spending money. If we all did this the bot-farms and corruption would dry out overnight.

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      There was a post a post in this comm on Tuesday.

      Title something like ‘should I be embarassed’

      Pic was a screenshot of text messages: Dad says, “You’re 22, you’ve never had a girlfriend, I’ve arranged a date for you on Friday [i.e. the 15th]. She’s 27. Pics to follow. No objections.” The son was posting asking advice should he go or not.

      The post is now deleted. We wanna know how the date went.

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          I’m interested in how’d find such a thing as a “federated copy.” Do you just go on a federated instance and search for the same post? Or copy the ID number in the URL? And how’d you choose the right instance, luck?

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            Sadly it was much more tame: search engines. They’ve been crawling Lemmy for a couple years now. I remembered just enough to get hits on that post from a couple instances. Luckily one didn’t delete it when OP scrapped the original. I’m a bit curious myself why that is, but in any case it gives us a backup of the post.

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            Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.

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            It seems like a bug in this case. Generally if a post is deleted on its home instance it is supposed to tell it to be deleted on others. Maybe they deleted this account instead of deleting the post and this made it act funky.

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        Lmfao my older brother is about to get into an arranged marriage (as in the consensual type), this is much more tame in comparison.

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    It was fake. Obvious from how the texts were structured. It was also from a brand new account.

    I thought Lemmy would be better than reddit for spotting clearly fake shit, but pretty much everyone in the comments bought it hook, line, and sinker.

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      Your average person is pretty god damn gullible, and while most on Lemmy think they’re smarter than the average person, they’re not.