Propaganda is the deliberate spreading of biased or misleading information, ideas, or rumors to influence public opinion and shape how people think and act. Instead of presenting all sides of an issue, it uses emotional appeal and selective facts to promote a specific cause, group, or leader. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

don’t need to be an astroturfer to do this. lots of people who genuinely push their beliefs use propaganda to push it.

i was mainly wondering if there was any ways/areas on lemmy to find more text based posts. because it seems like 95% of posts are an image or a link with a headline, but when i was on reddit sometimes i liked to rant or go on diatribes and read other people’s personal stories.

also it seems like for text posts dont show the text body on the page, you have to click them to view the body and i liked on reddit how you could kind of read part of the body and see partially what they’re saying before clicking. i feel like lemmy needs this.

i’m just going to ask them here then. ty