Has anyone else noticed this, across the fediverse, Lemmy specifically. A lot of new users, but also a lot of first posts that are very inflammatory/rage baity.
Do we have another legit influx of new users? Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot? Or maybe I’m imagining it.
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I’ve noticed more debatelords (only in large communities, like c/technology), not sure they will stay if we don’t feed them and the more debatelordy instances just simply ban them.
Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot?
Yes.
People are hostile idiots sometimes, also, so that doesn’t help. But yes, people are definitely trying to stir up deliberate ballache for whatever weird reasons of their own.
For context
I used to see new accounts with weird names posting long AMAs in the !askmeanything@lemmy.ca community.
Are those LLM bots or are they real users?
Unsure personally, but I’m keeping an eye on it personally
Nothing out of the ordinary personally.
Meta communities are prompt to drama, but that’s the usual.
Edit: I just remember I’ve seen a few one-day account posting obvious ragebait. That usually gets removed quickly.
Yeah in my small areas of the fedi, im not seeing any inflammatory posts. Of course there’s like dozens of us compared to you all, but its a happy balance.
I don’t think it’s an uptick, it’s been around for as long as I’ve used the Fediverse.
I’ve never understood the mindset that this social site is made up of a different mix of personalities than any other. It’s not. There’s very nice people here and there’s very mean people here. Often, the very nice are quiet so you won’t always notice them but the meanest are usually very outspoken and everyone comes across something left by them. Hatred, ignorance and toxicity is not something that’s left at the door of the fediverse.
We ought to moderate well and do better than elsewhere though. Well, at least I would hope that users would gravitate towards instances that moderate their users better, so we get more civil behavior.
I’ve never understood the mindset that this social site is made up of a different mix of personalities than any other. It’s not.
On the other hand, this is often the case in small communities. Most Lemmy instances are general-purpose or large enough to have a typical mix, but I have been to a few sites which will moderate away any hostility whatsoever, and that does make the site unusable for some personalities. These kind of sites have rules like “No politics. No insults. No drama.” Toxicity isn’t inevitable, there’s nothing forcing community staff to tolerate mean people or mean outbursts, but it does take a mixture of design decisions and careful micromanagement which most communities, and especially most large sites, don’t bother with.
edit: and on the flipside, there are also communities where toxicity is expected and it’s amazing to see someone acting nice there, it might even be done as a trolling method.
Or is the world just pissed about the state of things?
Bots originating in russa, china, etc, etc spreading social unrest
Those countries want to divide us and it’s working
That’s true in most places, but until now it’s been relatively quiet I’m here on the fediverse
Those countries want to divide us and it’s working
We have a saying “People who think too highly of themselves and can’t fix their problems will always make up a bogeyman to blame”
Did the tankies lead you to support the genocide? Did the tankies keep you from keeping Israel/US accountable for their crimes?
No buddy, your “countries” did those all on their own and were proud of it. The countries are only changing their tone as the hypocrisy is failing to keep up with the lies.
But you do you. You’re such good guys and have never done bad to anyone else and also “never” fought among yourselves.
If it takes some Chinese and Russian trolls to divide you, you’re never really “together” bud. But again whatever makes you sleep at night.
What has ended up happening in the replies to this comment is exactly what OP was talking about.
That’s a lame and cheap attack and also ridiculous.
Try replying to these so-called “Russian and Chinese bot accounts” and see what happens
You won’t get evasive and broken English, rather a long and thorough breakdown grounded in theory and history
So people are just pretending that astroturfing by foreign nations isn’t real now? Cool.
I don’t really have an opinion about whether “astroturfing by foreign nations” is widespread on the internet overall. I will note that we have to take the word of intelligence agencies and big tech companies as the only evidence in the public record that it’s happening.
What I am saying is that here on the fediverse, the people who throw around that accusation are childish and ill-informed every time.
Basically, these people are saying that they can’t even imagine the possibility of people believing differently than the national media narrative of their home country, which is a pretty embarrassing self-own if you ask me.
Lol
“Theory and history”
Try it and see
Degenerate tankies white washing a genocide being commited by a country that is no way communist is not “theory and history.”
And even “historical” discussion is usually along the lines of “it’s a good thing that Stalin collaborated with the Nazis and split up Europe!” or "Not wanting to have you culture exterminate by the russians is Nazism!
Keep in mind this is not my first day on Threadiverse! Playing dumb is not going to work with me.
Aaaaand… we’re off!
Degenerate tankies
Lol
white washing a genocide
I can’t wait for this one. Pray tell what genocide?
country that is no way communist
What makes a country communist in your view? Only countries that never build any sort of government and never do any sort of production?
“it’s a good thing that Stalin collaborated with the Nazis and split up Europe!”
I would love a link that you have to someone making this argument
“Not wanting to have you culture exterminate by the russians is Nazism!”
Lol no. Glorifying Nazis like Stepan Bandera is Naziism. Doing ethnic cleansing in Eastern Ukraine is Naziism.
Keep in mind this is not my first day on Threadiverse!
Obviously, it takes time to absorb the lame “tankies bad” circlejerk from
.world. Seems you have had some time to let it soak in.Get fucked tankie roach!
You don’t speak Ukrainian (or russian) and you’ve never been to eastern Ukraine (or any part of Ukraine).
So don’t play dumb with, you stupid degenerate!
You’re certainly making a point here, I wonder if it’s the one you intended.
You are right I don’t speak Ukrainian, do you? I’d love to discuss the 7 years between 2015 and 2022 with a local.
Im new but ive noticed a ton of slop news is spammed by the same handful of accounts only. None of the articles add anything new or provide a unique perspective. Then its spammed over all the news subs. Its annoying but im not a mod what can i do.
I think that slop news posts are intentionally inflammatory because they add no new information and only seek to evoke an emotional reaction.
Either block the user or the community.
Not inflammatory, but I’ve noticed some new users who come only to do self promotion, without engaging in anyting else in the platform. Mostly in art related comms but also a couple trying to promote a shady website or the like. Even though my account is new I’ve been browsing for a good while and dislike people that are only looking for an audience not a community.
I do some self promotion, although I try to; 1: only post in relevant forums. 2: also engage outside of my own posts an then not talk about said posts.(this time is an exception but its kind of a meta discussion.)
Due to the nature of the fedivers what I post on mastodon and pixelfed might get federated on to Lemmy, which unfortunately might give the appearance of spamming, I’m aware of this but I don’t see a way around that. And lastly. I don’t think my videos on Peertube would get any views unless I post them outside of peertube since there is no real algorithm or good discovery functions across the instances. But I’m open to being in the wrong here.
And to clarify, self promo is ok! My complaint is about the ones who wouldn’t even see this post (or any other post for the matter), much less reply to it. They just take up space and do not give anything of value back. Imo. As the fediverse grows it’s bound to happen, it just pisses me off.
I’m not saying it will be the solution but, positive reinforcement for those who behave, mixed with not interacting with those that only spam would probably get some to loose interest. And perhaps some mod rules.
Interesting, I haven’t noticed this but I’ll keep an eye out on accounts
Leaving the 3 biggest news comms has been one of the best things I’ve done recently.
comms
Communications?
Communities
Cormorants?
Yes have noticed more rage bait. Also more and more culture wars in comments. Still not anywhere near as bad as reddit.
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Seems like the average user on here is smart enough not to get caught up in that bullshit thankfully.
I wonder if it’s still early enough to give people taps on the shoulder - “don’t feed the trolls, friend”.
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I haven’t, but then again I don’t subscribe to News or Politics communities.
The way to go
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Any influx of new users that appear to be valid human meat popsicles should be the new normal. Would you like to create a downloadable zip file of a codebase that demonstrates this?
I’ve seen one Dunno about a large influx. But it didn’t last long.
