Why are so many people racist against indians? This thread is a good example.
I’m an instance admin and see heaps of the same stuff being posted. Pretty sure it’s one lonely troll not lots of people. Even in this thread, it’s all one user account not lots of different people, but we see the same stuff posted across lots of brand new accounts in a very similar way.
Well, up to 2 people now. But yeah, I get your point. Some people just suck
Makes sense. Even then a lot of the troll’s comments are upvoted by a few people. There are definitely a few people here who share the troll’s extreme opinions. Thanks for doing your part in removing all these bullshit. I wish lemmy had a way to block account creation by IP addresses. That might stop trolls from making dozens of alt accounts.
We very often see the same username created across many instances, it’s very easy to do and Lemmy has no protections against it. Plus, there are no protections against creating multiple accounts to upvote your own posts (don’t get any ideas 😆). IP blocks wouldn’t work as instances are entirely independent, so there is no sharing of IP info across different instances.
Currently there is at least some level of coordination across instances, though, such as Lemmy.world’s Defense HQ, where instance admins can share info about spammers/trolls so we don’t have to wait for a report from one of our own users. There’s also Fediseer, but this protects against spam instances not spam accounts on mainstream instances.
We very often see the same username created across many instances
Guilty as charged. I’ll say though, there are several legitimate reasons why one might want to do this. I personally use it as a substitute for Reddit’s multireddit feature, by grouping community subscriptions across different instances by theme. As long as users use the same username across instances I don’t think this practice should be automatically regarded as an attempt to sockpuppet. It that was the goal, the accounts would definitely not be using the same username across all the instances.
Personally I have accounts on multiple instances because I wanted to make communities in different languages and some instances focus a lot more on one language than others and also because the SFW instances defederated the NSFW ones. I do not really interact with the same posts though.
I didn’t intend to imply that by using the same username across instances you were breaking some sort of rule. Different instances have different moderation policies, different federation policies, and different intents. Having multiple accounts in good faith should not be an issue and was not what I was trying to imply.
Rather, the intention was to show that we know bad actors do this with nefarious intent. Here’s an example (they show zero comments as they have been banned with content removed - also I think these ones only had posts not comments anyway):
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Indians are present in big numbers on reddit and other websites due to how populated India is, how english is popular there and that they aren’t contained in national platforms like their chinese neighbors. It makes them noticeable for bigots to single them out and target. Just because they want someone to hate and laugh at to up their self-esteem.
riiiight it’s not like they use their population to push lies, distort the truth and not push their extreme caste hatred elsewhere.
It makes them noticeable for bigots to single them out and target.
it’s actually the opposite. one indian guy pushes a lie that puts india in a better light and almost every indian votes the post or comment to the top. anyone pointing out the truth is buried by the nationalistic brigade.
Racism is bad, using the ignorant populace to push lies is bad too.
I think it’s due to the stereotypes and the bad experiences, I’ve had pretty bad experiences with indians in gaming (racist, annoying, begging) and work (incompetent, corrupt, etc), but I’ve also seen that from other people with different backgrounds, more importantly though is that I’ve also seen some amazing tutorials in YouTube from Indian peeps and I’ve also found some great repos from Indian devs as well.
Probably trolls looking for attention and engagement. But not being aware that their comments does hurt someone.
I’m a troll and i want my comments to hurt someone
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Reported this filth, just saying.
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No one asked you
Well to be fair, you did. And he’s the perfect answer to your question, as an example to why some people are racist: They’re simply dumb.
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Glad that there are govt. level systems who make use of Linux (mostly ubuntu ) systems here. For eg. , in kerala, all govt schools and colleges use linux for computer labs and academic activities, i guess the local body administration too use ubuntu.
Only wish we could convince those private sector schools of the money they’ll save converting those slow windows systems to linux.
Problem with private schools is most likely the training investment required. They can’t as easily replace IT team and/or CS teachers with those who can handle Linux
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August 2022
Old data, man.
It’s even better now.Those wild spikes don’t give me a lot of confidence in the data
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That explains the popularity of “unknown OS” but not why it swings so wildly
Uhm what’s re they using for this report… I would have assumed they would have gone with just taking the User Agent and similar which I guess that wouldn’t matter on the modifications you say.
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Somehow things seem similar (perhaps better) in Greece:
12% in Norway! At least last I checked when this same stat was posted.
How much in Linuxland?
Edit: 3.52% in Finland.
Czech Republic is at 2.53%
This is the birthplace of Red Hat Linux for god’s sake
Rechecked this now, and it’s at about 5% now. The statistics seem a bit weird to me, unless there are some big seasonal changes. Your 12% was recorded in June and July. Maybe with less business activity during these months, the Windows share plummets in favor of home users who are more prone to use Linux.
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To be fair here, Greece has much less population than India 🙂
Το επόμενο μεγάλο ΟΧΙ θα απευθύνεται στην Microsoft >:)
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Also consider the number of people in India. There is a massive Linux user base there.
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I don’t have to, you stink from just this comment.
As an Indian myself this makes me happy :D
Beware that what OP posted is old data. India is over 14% on Linux as of October 2023.
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Browser stats.
UnkownOS is a great privacy operating system. If users dont know what they are doing, then how can the government?
Here’s what it looks like in Morocco:
Somehow we prefer using the Apple more than the Penguin.
Why is Chrome OS separate?
It doesn’t really feel like Linux if you ask me. It’s not even open source, since Google controls everything. You could run Linux apps on it with a special mode I guess, but what bugs me is that they call Linux a “feature” when it’s absolutely not that at all.
But really, not a single soul in Morocco has even heard of Chrome OS. And even then, they’re gonna hate it.
Linux not GNU
separating just hurts the willingness to try Linux
Sad
Enslaved Linux
Lmao true
Unknown is TempleOS.
But, it has no network connectivity! That is against God’s will.
(Thus, no telemetry either)
Very interesting os though. Lots of very cool concepts
That’s more for the Christian fellas, I think.
How it could be 15% for some unknown OS?
Statcounter works by collecting and processing user agent strings from browsers accessing sites that use their analytics. Unknows OSes are probably the ones who don’t give that info.
My guess is click farms with some unknown custom made os that skew that data?
That also might be a source of Linux users hence the relatively high market share of the OS?
Not to mention that India still has a lot of call centers (some for scams) that may use Linux because it’s free (compared to a windows license)
A lot of people who work in those call centres are uneducated and don’t know shit about tech, they’re only parroting off a script. In those call centres they use windows 7 still and don’t even know about the existence of linux. Also piracy is big in India so they don’t care if linux is free. And most of all their victims/“customers”(old people) don’t use linux so they have no reason to either. It’s just the fellow Indian nerds using Linux.
Yeah, if you look at some of those YouTube channels that scam the scammers, you’ll usually see that the scammers are all running Windows.
I saw one where a guy used linux mint and the scammer used the usual tree command but other than that he knew fuck all what he was doing. He was tryna look for notepad. It was hilarious
And from 2026 thanks to Microsoft it will raise more as I can’t possibly imagine everyone buying new computers just for windows 11
Me neither, but what I can imagine is people running an unsupported OS forever, like they did with XP and probably 7
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In Canada, Apple is taking most of the increase, I wish Linux was more prevalent but I’m happy to see the downward slope for Windows:
I just hope asahi Linux takes of because the M3 looks sick but I’ll be fucked if I get sucked into the apple ecosystem. I’d rather be forced to use Windows on arm.
It is hard to say Linux holds market share because Linux is not a bitch to be sold, but it’s not hard to guess why people prefer it.
