I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up.
Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?
Not really, but I am from Europe so I don’t subscribe to communities connected to US news or politics. Can you give some examples?
Communities like https://lemmy.world/c/independentmormonism, https://lemmy.world/c/independentcatholicism, https://lemmy.world/c/thirdpartynews, all created today, and modded by a 9 day old user account with 640 comments and 334 posts.
Don’t know if you know, but just a heads up for anyone unfamiliar, the proper formatting for linking communities is:
!independentmormonism@lemmy.world
This helps users from other instances browse those communities without leaving their instance and prevents mobile apps from opening the browser. It also supports autofill when typing after the exclamation mark so you can’t go wrong.
Which, let’s face it, is dumb. Other clients should be able to recognize linked Lemmy instances and handle the click transparently.
Instead, now we have links that can’t be shared outside of Lemmy and links that should only be shared outside of Lemmy.
How do you do that? When i go to the community info page and click share, i get the http …
