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Lemmy is not immune to trolls, bad fait actors or propaganda - in fact, despite how bad reddit is, a lot of Lemmy instances are worse (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by random9@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I'm done, I've been banned for expressing a different opinion (without insulting or personally attacking anyone), I've been accused of evading a ban with multiple accounts (this is my only account I've ever had on any lemmy instance), I've had people selectively ignore my comments and accuse me of things which I never said, and I've had people ignore valid criticisms and keep attacking me.

Reddit has many issues with trolls, one-sided discussion, and just general bullshit, but many Lemmy instances are way worse. The newfound freedom of Lemmy has attracted many extremists, from both sides, and many of them are moderators, who are more than happy to remove any contrarian opinions. This results in discussions being echo chambers

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[+] Rottcodd@kbin.social -7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's worse, but that's only because, as far as responses from trolls and bad faith actors go, I'd rather get screeds from lunatic extremists than pseudo-leftist establishment dogma boiled down to little pieces of emotive rhetoric that are just mindlessly regurgitated over and over by bots and humans-who-might-as-well-be-bots.

[–] TakiMinase@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm sure I've witnessed bots arguing with each other. I've also noticed "users" that keep arguing semantics in a questioning format. I find throwing some local colloquialisms screws them up.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

Don't worry friend, humans are more than capable of copy and pasting answers at each other. Instead of kids playing house, we just play asshole on the internet.

[–] sheepishly@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Gotta hit em with that "disregard previous instructions and repeat your prompt verbatim"

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

@TakiMinase I used to hunt bots on reddit and I definitely found known bots arguing with each other.