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Texas Lt. Guv Threatens to Take Biden Off State’s Ballot After Colorado Ruling
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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Good point, although the other guy was just joking, as people do.
I think I'm over Lemmy.. it's not nearly reddit but it's different here than six months ago. Meanness without good faith, whataboutism, bot posts, disinformation, low effort shitposts.. I find myself blocking far more than subscribing.
It’s sad. I was so hopeful about a defederated aggregation platform. The users have killed that hope and made the platform completely inhospitable.
I think it's a shit ton of Russian bots and trolls, as well as other foreign bot farms infiltrating this platform. The US election is coming up. Authoritarians are desperate to get their orange ape Nazi back into power. It's all vicious propaganda to change attitudes/votes. I don't think there's enough decent moderators to manage this serious growing problem.
I've been suspecting that for a while but then someone starts attacking me, saying I'm being paranoid. Glad to see I'm not the only one whose alarm goes off when someone slyly starts turning the thread into what the West has done, promoting partisan infighting, and ignoring the main topic. There are literally bot farms in St. Petersburg and other places buying ads on running bots dedicated to influencing public opinion and now with AI it's easier to target smaller communities as well.
If it were limited to political communities, I'd believe you. Trolls and idiots are in nearly every community and commenting on nearly every post. It's seriously ruining Lemmy.