I'll absolutely agree on that one part of your comment. At this point, any comment that remotely seems like its defending anything Microsoft does to me is now considered bullshit attempts by MS to clear their name to some extent. When a company is so consistently voicing lies all over the place, their actions display those lies in clear light, and someone is defending any of it, yeah, no use in even looking into it, so it goes into the 'planted bot' bag out of principle alone.

One more thing I'll agree on is the hive mind mentality, and we all live through that to some degree, no exceptions. We would all like to think we're this individual entity with minds of our own influenced by nothing and no-one, but we all know that's bullshit, unless you live in a cave at the top of mount Everest and your community IA made out of fucking squirrels and frozen rocks (no idea if there are caves or squirrels on mount Everest, or rocks for that matter, I pulled those out of my ass). We do have the ability to question everything.

Now, while there's all kinds of people in Lemmy, there are only 2 main groups that then brach out to the other sub-groups. There's those of us that want a less "moderated by what may damage the 'company'" content and discussions, and then there's those that are here to disrupt and misinform, regardless of if it's of their own volition or if there's someone above them pushing it, whatever the intention may be. You're so clearly part of the latter that blocking you, like you suggested to someone else, would be to your advantage alone, not the community's. For example, why did you only take a snippet of my comment about how this is not Twitter instead of the whole paragraph? I'll tell you why. This is the same behavior used by some Christian pastors to manipulate people by reading some small parts of the bible to eliminate the original context and inject their own. You're too fucking transparent, try harder.

That's all I have in terms of responses to your