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Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by voluble@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up.

Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Haven't seen that. But I have seen some users who spend every moment of their lives posting to sway opinion on an issue of their choosing. And if I accurately assess them as Russian paid trolls, I get all my comments removed and I get banned. So that's awesome and fair. Their content stays up, protected by mods. What an awesome feeling.

[-] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Israel -Garza trolls/posters too

Edit Little bit ironic funny. In a thread about trolls the trolls come out

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

cough Linkerbaan cough

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This attitude is insane to me. A fucking genocide is happening. Imagine this attitude during WW2 if we were spring the Nazis. "Look at all these Jewish troll posters. So many complaints about this Holocaust thing. Must be Russian agents. No idea why else they would care this much."

I've got "Am I taking crazy pills?" energy up in here lol.

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

At the time quite a few people doubted the existence of the extermination camps. But when they were liberated and journalists got to visit them the cat was out of the bag.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

True, but I'd like to think people would have thought better if people were live streaming it, from both sides of the conflict even.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

They can't stop until kamala walks into the oval office and kicks biden in the nerds and screams, "Isreal better stop now or ill nuke the Vatican."

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Can we please nuke the vatican? Then continue systematically disassembling all other religions?

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You should get banned for that. This isn't Reddit, go back if you want a hug box.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

What the hell are you talking about?

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