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Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.

I'm not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I've noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like "The ineffectual left" "single issue voters" "ignorant right wing morons". Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.

I'm not a centrist, I'm very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I'm hearing a lot of them lately.

Most egregiously I'm seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.

So I guess my question is, how're we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I always suspect a lot of them are coming from Reddit to take their daily dump on something to discourage others from using. All in hopes that we come back to Reddit so that they can gaslight, cry to mods and have us banned again just for their own amusement.

Yeah they say that the internet in general can produce these kinds of people from all corners, but you do notice by behavior. If it isn't Reddit, it's got to be Twitter. One of the two, they're the most rabid of the bunch that would resort to these kind of things because they don't lead any productive lives.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see more posts about "have you seen this or that in lemmy recently" or "lemmy is worse than reddit" posts more often than these supposed trolls. Sure they exist but all of the time they are down voted or deleted.

There is also someone saying in the comments that criticizing biden is a foreign conspiracy. Some of these Americans just look like a reflection of the right but call themselves left. I'm not American so I face no real threat(as far as I'm aware) regardless of who gets elected there. So I just think you can criticize "both sides" people without making your leader look immortal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you ever sort by hot? Or are you mainly in the default sort?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Are they coming from a specific instance? I've blocked a couple and my lemmy experience drastically improved

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Me? No, and I've been around for a while

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it simply just the political majority starting to catch up with Lemmy and its extreme left ideology?

Also i know a guy who runs a bunch of llm powered bots to produce flat earth propaganda flatgpt one could say. There are some beautiful argument chains.

I've also run into some cases where u can do a little prompt injection and it starts saying potato instead of any noun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yes but reddit always sheds users every once and a while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's not redditors who are doing this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Circle of life on the internet. Some public forums last longer than others. Some go full facist dictatorship, some devolve into anarchy, some die out completely. Nirvananet, Totse, gamefaqs, 4chan, 99chan, imgur, whirlpool forums, stack exchange, reddit, Lemmy. Theres no telling which way a rudderless ship will drift. You just do what you can, and get off when she starts going under

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, maybe try to find new communities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Why wouldn't I try to improve the ones I'm already in?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There's a reason I drew this.

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