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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If you keep out of Political Communities then you may not see them.
This has been in the Ask communities unfortunately
Yeah but the toxicity is still negligible, but I do get your point.
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We try to keep an eye about those posts on !ask@piefed.social
Thank you! After Admiral Patrick left I felt like there was a void here, introducing Captain Swift!
Bots originating in russa, china, etc, etc spreading social unrest
Those countries want to divide us and it’s working
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.
That’s true in most places, but until now it’s been relatively quiet I’m here on the fediverse
What has ended up happening in the replies to this comment is exactly what OP was talking about.
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Lol
“Theory and history”
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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 me, you stupid degenerate!
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So people are just pretending that astroturfing by foreign nations isn’t real now? Cool.
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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.
As a fairly new user to lemmy I have found that the community can be pretty brutal and there are quite a lot of set things that are frowned upon. Windows always gets a lot of abuse, but for me here in the UK the amount of Mac and Linux users is miniscule, for example… yet Windows is frowned upon greatly. Sp whilst not raging, it is deffo anti a fair few things. I know it is to be expected as it is a fairly technical things to use lemmy/piefed/fediverse but it still makes me wince. Like everything these days, the less passionate just don’t post any more so it does bring out some strong responses
It’s not only about many people here being technical, of course you’re right that it plays a big part, and it’s also that the Fediverse is a rejection of for-profit, closed social media, so there’s a HUGE crossover between its users and the FOSS community (including Linux users) who really take strong issue to many things about Windows (and Mac) that Windows users consider to be normal. And with Lemmy especially, the initial userbase was largely anti-capitalists, since Reddit was banning many of their subreddits and was exploiting their users for profit with ads, blocking third-party apps, and bending to the demands of media companies and their owners. So plenty of people here are political about software.
Nah im greatful, someone said “your first problem was using windows” 7/8 months ago here and I was you know what let me try linux just to complain about it to you, and I never went back lol
I totally understand, but it is also why many people I know come, have a look around and are swiftly gone… I was trying (badly) to be pretty generic in my point, you said it a lot better than I could think of at the time
I’ve been in the nerdy tech space for decades now and I will never understand how these people expect things like Linux to take charge while they’re also being the most gatekeepy and arrogant people. Sure, I’d love folks to try it out, but I’m not going to demonize them either for not. I also have done tech support and there are the people where I just say “Nope, get a mac” because otherwise I will be the person that they go and demand free support from every week.
There’s passion, but then there’s a line that is too often crossed that goes into ego and selfishness, and I think Lemmy just breeds that.
I mean, if you want tone policing, reddit is still there.
Leaving the 3 biggest news comms has been one of the best things I’ve done recently.
comms
Communications?
Communities
Cormorants?
Or is the world just pissed about the state of things?
Only abouts Arch Linix users. :)
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.
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I’ve seen one Dunno about a large influx. But it didn’t last long.
Definitely. Most of the time communities are friendly and supportive - but I’ve noticed too that there are users who seem deliberately scratchy and saying things that are looking to provoke and who become fizzy if they’re challenged in any way about something they’ve said. I wondered if it’s much younger users who are coming from other places having picked up the “fight me” attititude there.
I think that’s why it becomes so noticeable - it’s usually so calm and chill that when someone comes in to stir the pot it’s so obvious
That’s one of the benefits of having a forum small enough to have a community. Troublemakers stick out like a sore thumb.
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?
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
