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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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[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 126 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

https://lemmy.world/u/UniversalMonk

One week old account. 684 Comments. 383 Posts. That's 152 posts/comments a day, 9 an hour, and most are over a paragraph long. Almost all of them focus controversially on third-party advocacy in the middle of an election year.

Not saying this account is a bot, but a person would certainly have to be spending a whole lot of time on lemmy to be posting this much in one week so it certainly feels spamish.

[–] aaa999@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

haha I just saw an absolutely terrible post by that very real individual

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

I see that this account has a few topics it posts on. Now, that alone doesn't mean anything. Lots of lemmy users have their 3, 4 topics they are interested in and nothing more. Maybe they are an enthusiastic green party voter.

But that amount of posts in such a short timespan smells like a bot account.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

That shitbag also got all my content pulled from /politics where I called him out as a shill, then the mods banned me despite me providing proof of his forum sliding tactics.

Face it, lemmy's already been taken over by the bots and shills, they've infiltrated the mod teams and are now protecting their own. We all saw it happen with reddit and the admins just let it happen here to.

Getting so tired of assholes infiltrating online spaces.

The account isn't a bot, they are a media management account that uses AI content but is ultimately just a person using tools to undermine free discussion.

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

There is another group of users asking basically the same question over in this thread:

https://lemmy.world/post/18757036

It's definitely odd at a minimum.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the bot ban wave done just about a year ago. Maybe hosts will do the same again, or make account generation have a pending status.