Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?

ettyblatant@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 419 points –

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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People do report stuff, get yelled at by the mods, and then get banned by the admins for abuse of the reporting system, or mod abuse for getting clarification.

What mods/admins are doing this? I would not stick around a community or instance run like this. Luckily with the Fediverse, you can choose what instances or communities you want to go to, you're not stuck in the same way you were on Reddit. Use that power - don't let abusive mods/admins be your host.

Moderating comments, even trolling is suppressing free speech. So it goes against the entire purpose of fediverse, it’s an issue with its own system. So people say to report them, but they won’t act on reports since just having an opinion that goes against the narrative can fall under free speech. And moderation it will create other issues.

Go elsewhere, smaller communities, less content, more moderation so less content, it’s all potential issues all the way down that are created by itself.

So it goes against the entire purpose of fediverse

The purpose of the Fediverse is not free speech or censorship-resistance. It's more like to have a choice in your social media landscape and to make it more democratic, via users choosing what server to use. If you want a server that doesn't supress free speech, join one like that or make it yourself. If you want a more strictly moderated server, go to one like that or make it yourself.

And yea your choice may not be as popular so maybe there'll be less content, but you'll be in the area you chose and maybe others will follow you over time.