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?

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    112·
    3 months ago

    Not really, but I am from Europe so I don’t subscribe to communities connected to US news or politics. Can you give some examples?

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
        192·
        3 months ago

        Lemmy is another form of social media, and bullshit that happens on social media will come here as more people come here. Your life will be much better if you make full use of blocklists and filtering.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
        15·
        3 months ago

        Don’t know if you know, but just a heads up for anyone unfamiliar, the proper formatting for linking communities is:

        !independentmormonism@lemmy.world

        This helps users from other instances browse those communities without leaving their instance and prevents mobile apps from opening the browser. It also supports autofill when typing after the exclamation mark so you can’t go wrong.

        • breakingcups@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          Which, let’s face it, is dumb. Other clients should be able to recognize linked Lemmy instances and handle the click transparently.

          Instead, now we have links that can’t be shared outside of Lemmy and links that should only be shared outside of Lemmy.

          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            I think it’s fine if you provide a common interface across Lemmy with autocomplete. If you’re on a desktop, you can always copy the URL but if you’re on mobile you use the Share button anyway.

        • voluble@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          3 months ago

          Thanks! I was sure there was a nomenclature, I just forgot what it was. Cheers for the reminder.

        • Today@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          How do you do that? When i go to the community info page and click share, i get the http …

          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            Just type “!” followed by the name of the sub. Make sure it’s the registered name and not the display name. You can find that on the sidebar as below.