Anecdotally, Iβve seen more spam lately too.
Btw, what are we calling aggressive chat bots? Auto-trolls? Strife bots? Contentionator-3000s?
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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The same assholes who were on Reddit being pieces of shit are here too.
It's the internet, everything is reduced to being shitty within weeks of getting noticed.
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I'll downvote all of you
Just lots of trolls lately, most communities are fine but some have poor moderation so these types of comments/posts take some time to get deleted. All the communities I'm browsing are quite chill.
It has gotten worse and it will only continue to do so. There are people who are respectful and hold back their darkest impulses, but there are others who choose to hold those same features in high regard, as literal virtues in their eyes. Blocking hexbear and lemmygrad has helped my own peace of mind immensely, but you would not want to block lemmy.ml or lemmy.world or such so... here we are.
I do not really see any permanent solution to this problem, short of eternal vigilance. That's just nature though, e.g. viruses constantly evolve and seek new hosts, hence hosts that do not keep up die, there's no way around needing to keep up defenses against such a tireless onslaught. Similarly for information vs. misinformation too, it seems:-(.
It has also gotten much harder to have any discussion with even the tiniest hint of subtlety on the Fediverse - is Biden/Linux/socialism/religion good or bad? "Yes." For some of us, knowing what will happen - the flood of toxic responses I mean - if we dare to speak up is enough to cause us to cringe enough that we would simply rather stay silent instead. If only the opposing side were like that too! But no, they elect not to hold their own tongues, even while expecting YOU to hold yours. That too seems just the nature of the universe.
if we dare to speak up is enough to cause us to cringe enough that we would simply rather stay silent instead.
It's a different kind of Chilling Effect. It reduces conversation, because it convinces some people to not become involved at all.
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People here realize that narratives have consequences and know we can't just live in la-la land where everyone is happy all the time. I mean yeah you can do that but then don't be surprised pikachu face when you find yourself in the company of neo-nazis who are doing the same.
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I posted a cookie recipe in response to a cookie meme, got roasted for not converting baking units to science units. So yeah, people are getting kinda aggressive.
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The number of trolls is going to increase as the user base increases.
Plus, you get the same negative effects of the echo chambers like Reddit did, but I think the communities being so small amplifies the effect.
People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor.
You should ask a police officer how some neighbours talk to each other...
I haven't noticed a change, but I also haven't ventured outside of the echo chamber/hug box of my subscribed communities feed.
Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: "it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative."
For my part I haven't really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!
I've said it before, Lemmy is a fickle place.
I expect it will get better with time as we get more users.