The problem with having a good discussion on Lemmy is that its a low-trust environment, if you want interesting geopolitics stuff Caspian report is good for content ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwnKziETDbHJtx78nIkfYug ). Not sure about anything on Lemmy because talking about politics is both annoying no faith arguments or circle jerk/doom article posting, needless to say, I have politics and world events either blocked or not on my homepage.
I would say that there's cross-section of users from different instances whose community have different expectations regarding netiquette. .ml or .grad users posting about how they hate america or (insert country here) is fine in their instance, but is annoying/insulting for other instances users. (.ml and grad are just examples and not exclusive to them.)
There is no evidence of governmental interference for many reasons ranging from: its not actually happening, to, no one is looking for it, to, its too hard to detect.
Imho most people are influenced by the ziteguist of opinion. And a little embellishment here and there on Twitter, is enough to spread the "general knowledge" that the world is so bad and there's nothing we can do. Even better, platforms promote this content to drive more engagement making the general opinion even worse.
When you have everyone who agrees on something, having one person disagree is noise. That's the point. To have a diversity of opinion without punishment, within "in-groups". Ops post seems like it's some sort of appeals process if someone is "generating noise" (disagreeing) in good faith, they have a recourse. And op does state that a history of bad faith can be punished, or just obvious trolling. My worry is that this is a "foot in the door" for future admin overreach.
"You stupid", " no I'm not!", "What's 9 + 10", " 21!", "you stupid."