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

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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[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

No one is paying troll farms to go comment on lemmy though

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago

im not on lemmy but I see regular buy drugs here, how to change your flight booking (no idea how that scam whatever it is works), or for some reason random keyboard characters like a person randomly banged on the homerow keys. may not be paid but apparently someone thinks the fediverse is worth crapping up.

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Fair enough, I have also seen that crap

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

No one is paying troll farms to go comment on lemmy though

Could you tell that to the c/politics commenters who seem to think russian shills lurk behind every rock?

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I don’t really think political spending is going towards Lemmy trolls, much less like…national propaganda spending. Shitty advertising bots maybe.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I don’t really think political spending is going towards Lemmy trolls

Nor do I. I don't think lemmy is large enough for such spending to have enough return on investment to make it worthwhile. But it's convenient to dismiss deviations from centrist orthodoxy as the output of shills, and so it happens.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh i doubt that. According to a few people I've spoken with i'm a paid troll.

That aside it's good to be suspicious that any reasonably populated online space has is share of astrotrurfers. Hell, remember snowdens revelations shows federal agents had fuggen World of Warcraft and xbox live accounts

[-] daltotron@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

i’m a paid troll.

Wait, you guys are getting paid?

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

We do it for love

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

It's more like the far right is bored and doesn't have anything better to do than troll on the internet.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

So the record is correct here?

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