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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (lemmy.world)

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

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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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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nazis have been attacking Lemmy for quite awhile now. They've only really been finding success on a few problem instances, though.

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[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago

Why yes, we even had a balrog...

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

We can expect this with any system that grows in size, becomes popular right? I don’t know the science behind it, but communities over a certain size naturally create subcommunities or attract partisans, antagonists, anarchists with a tendency to troll for fun. It’s the way of things.

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

That's why huge instances are bad, they can't moderate all those users (I am on a bigger instance myself tho don't judge me).

[–] Glass0448@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Communities need an auto mod to limit age of accounts.

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

I believe THIS is exactly what is being talked about when they say "Russian troll farm"

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