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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ettyblatant@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I see.

not everyone needs to block everyone.

I feel like defederation is the tool for this on the Fediverse. But just to be clear, when I said "go somewhere else if you don’t like where you are right now" I didn't mean go away from the Fediverse, I just meant another community or instance basically.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I would argue that defederation is a completely fucking brain dead way to deal with bad faith users.

And the “fediverse” has no answers here.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How come? I mean if there is a concentration of bad faith users on an instance or maybe the instance attracts such types because it has no rules or directly encourages such behaviour, is it not good that other instances can choose not to interact with that instance?

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Try being a bad faith actor for a week and see how much defederation affects you.

It’s just drama fuel that does nothing to improve the quality of discourse on the network because it’s trivially bypassed.

It only punishes users with permanent identities, that is good faith users. Trolls just move. They do it all the time anyway to evade blocks.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Trolls just move

But isn't that the case on all platforms? How can you get around this? Could the Fediverse do better somehow?

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Listen, it’s clear you have not given this much thought. That’s ok. But I feel I’m wasting my breath here.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago

Sorry, I'm not trying to convince you that you're wrong or anything, I'm genuinely curious what you think. I'm curious if there's a way to do better. Sorry if I offended you.