Has anyone seen trolls and bots in Lemmy yet?

ronaldtemp1@lemmy.world to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 4 points –

I came from a place where the local non-reddit non-English forum has so few mods and necessary resources to effectively moderate. Trolls are everywhere which is so detrimental to quality discussion.

Question: do we have mods and the necessary tools and resources in Lemmy to counter them?

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I haven't seen any obvious bots in the wild here (yet), but they'll come soon enough. There are at least a couple Github repos out there (i.e. this one) with bot libraries so I'd expect some of the old reddit bots could make some sort of a comeback pretty soon.

For the most part I personally have not witnessed any bad behavior or trolls. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air, and people seem genuinely happy to be here. I hope it stays that way.

BUT…

Have a look at the mod log on any instance. It’s a public log of moderator actions and gets federated along with everything else.

Definitely some people getting banned for the usual reasons. People will be people. 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://hakbox.social/modlog (may contain NSFW material).

I mod a community of 14 people and 3 posts. No bots yet :-p

Crossing my fingers things stay tame though, I have no experience being a mod.