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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ettyblatant@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I swear, ~~every time~~ most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day.

They are only there to sow discord. Only to piss people off. Idk if we can just report them (for what?) but I'd like to try exposing them before responding and interacting..

I am guilty of gobbling up the bait. I've started looking at profiles of people that piss me off exceptionally and noticed they're burner bot loser accounts.

I guess i just want to say I've noticed it!

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[–] S_204@lemm.ee 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ya, Lemmy is speed running the worst things about Reddit but struggling to build the niche communities that would make people want to hang around.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The thing that's making me kinda want to leave is it feels like even more of an echo chamber then Reddit was, especially when you see someone calling for the death of someone at least once a week or so

Quite often see people getting downvote bombed and dogpiled for having different political opinions

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I left reddit because I fucking hate the company.

But I'm not happy here because I fucking hate the users.

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Great summary.

[–] fictitiousexistence@lemmy.ml -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me even typing a response to your comment make me 70% more likely to get banned in the few hours.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

It's infectuous

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Yes but not that much I see the communities are starting to materialize but many that are a 1 to 1 copy didn't took off sadly the Warframe one is a good example, but you see the pixel dungeon one is going great even Evan00 (the dev of shattered) is buzzing in and the helldivers2 is starting to get to the frontpages. I guess the fediverse moves in a more organical way? Regarding the trolls is normal is a "ladran Sancho" situation, we are getting more people in and that includes idiots. Sadlly/Luckly idiots comes in the full spectrum of races backgrounds and preferences.