• @thesporkeffect
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    568 months ago

    This is because they are doing influence ops out of that base, right?

    • Sundray
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      348 months ago

      Or it’s an exit node for some internal network/VPN.

      Which would be stupid opsec, but then again…

      • @Lost_My_Mind
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        188 months ago

        What I have learned is that if you have a simple explaination, but it’s really really stupid, that’s still probably what happened. Because people are stupid.

      • @Rakonat
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        48 months ago

        Not stupid as you think if its being used as a tunnel for overseas stations to have a clear route to send encrypted traffic.

        • Sundray
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          18 months ago

          Fair enough, and if all the outgoing traffic to Reddit is innocuous, then there’s nothing to hide. Not great if it is some kind of hub of an operation to influence Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      No, it’s because that’s where they counter the <insert enemy of the state department>'s propaganda with truth and facts.

      Same reason Reddit’s director of policy comes from The Council on Foreign Relations and worked for Madelin Albright. They certainly wouldn’t be using Reddit to influence the perceptions of Americans, the primary users of Reddit.

    • sunzu
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      48 months ago

      Making comments like this gets you on their special lists :)

    • Optional
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      38 months ago

      Just standard Pooty-poot simping MAGA Qult materials. Nothing of note really.

    • @Rakonat
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      28 months ago

      Its also a training base so you goy that going, but that’s definitely not enough to compare to the ops dept.

    • AlexisFR
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      08 months ago

      Likely not, back then it was probably just bored air force nerds stuck in Florida.

    • @superduperpirate
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      218 months ago

      Reminds me of the pictures of the /baltimore meetup that did nothing to refute stereotypes of redditors

      • @[email protected]
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        198 months ago

        That picture is forever burned into my mind when I think of Reddit.

        I’d love to see one for Lemmy. I suspect it’d be largely the same except about 25% of us pasty nerds would be trans women, and there would be a lot of Linux merch on display.

        • @NOPper
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          88 months ago

          You know what? I’d go if I was local just to see.

          • @[email protected]
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            58 months ago

            Likewise. Though judging from the Lemmy community for my province and it’s biggest city, maybe 3 people would show up.

            • @elephantium
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              38 months ago

              I used to be subbed to several local subreddits, including a [mylocation]-social.

              The difference in tone between people I knew from the `social meetups vs. the people in the generic city/state subreddits was truly amazing.

    • Xyre
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      48 months ago

      I actually recognize some of those pixels! That was back before the meetups got taken over by corporate…

  • SanguinePar
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    98 months ago

    What does it mean by most addicted? And why are Glasgow and Edinburgh right up top?

      • SanguinePar
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        28 months ago

        That’s what I thought, but really? Of all the cities in the world, the top two are 50 miles apart in central Scotland?

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          There’s going to be a military or intelligence agency behind them both. Possibly corporate, but who knows? Maybe Glasgow is the big name in internet marketing.

          Scotland had a notable community but not that notable regardless.