Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 419 points – 6 months ago

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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I have seen this as well. Thankfully Voyager flags accounts under a certain age, so there’s an immediate visual indicator that an inflammatory comment may be just a troll.

That's a neat feature. I will request that gets added to sync.

Huh, interesting. Voyager's one of the Lemmy apps? Is it for iOS too?

Lemmy.world actually host a voyager instance at https://m.lemmy.world/

Yeah, it’s an iOS app.

Is this on per default? How to activate it?

Thanks

AFAIK it’s on by default. I’m using the most recent iOS version, if you’re not seeing it I’d ask in the voyager community.

Just installed due to this thread.

On by default. Nice feature

I see. The symbol is an yellow baby