I’ve seen around 3 occasions of that this week, altho I have never seen anything like it before.

if I remember correctly they were:

  • smack talking a mod (FlyingSquid) for saying not to report the same comment twice, when they were different comments, and the report was spam
  • someone comparing .world with .ml in politics (as in there was a comment saying "this post will be overrun with .ml people, and then a comment going “but you are from .world”) (Maybe Im part of the problem? I have been called out for being a fascist because I questioned the “puching nazis” theme)
  • one more which I can’t remember.

Anyways, what is all that about? Are people really starting to hate on 50% of the lemmy population because of their instance?

  • @[email protected]
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    .world is the biggest instance and therefore a prime choice for trolls to create accounts. Most of the trash posts I’ve seen lately are from brand new users on lemmy.world

    I am equally suspicious of brand new lemmy.world users as I am of veterans of lemmy.ml. Older accounts on .world are usually pretty normal.

    • @aubeynarf
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      This is why I chose lemmynsfw. No one doubts our intent

        • @[email protected]
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          How’s it like living in fantasy-land where every single one of your opinions online is correct and you can never be wrong? (/s in case you’re incredibly dull.)

          It’s so incredibly stupid to not have downvotes fucking hell.

          • @[email protected]
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            Well, it is stupid if applied generally, but I can see the reasons making sense for lemmynsfw. You want to encourage people and not hurt their feelings yadda yadda

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        A big number of instances don’t federate with lemmynsfw though, so there’s a lot of users who don’t see the messages of the users from that instance.

    • atocci
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      I like to think of myself as normal lol

      I’m here because kbin.social died and this was my next oldest account

          • @[email protected]
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            62 months ago

            Glad to hear kbin/mbin is still alive. Any good communities/“magazines” there I should check out?

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          I tried fedia.io, but it’s mobile website design is pure ass. It’s nice on my tablet, where there’s more room for the design to breathe a bit…but smooshed together on the cell phone layout, nothing makes sense. I want to like it, but I’m only on my tablet like 20% of the time. Cell phone is my main use.

        • atocci
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          I probably would have gone there, but I didn’t want to make another new account, so I just ended up falling back to one I already had.

      • burgersc12
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        lemmy.world is popular, which has its pros and cons. At least you didn’t pick hexbear lol

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          My first account in this place was on .ml because it was only them and beehaw at the time, and I ended up deleting it once controversy popped up lol

        • atocci
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          The developer and admin, Ernest, went through a rough patch in his life. Development and server upkeep fell off during this time, and it wasn’t picked back up again. I don’t think anyone’s heard from him in a long while now, but I don’t really know.

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      82 months ago

      In my experience (hexbear and .ml instances excluded) the majority of trolls I encounter seems to be from either infosec.pub or blahaj.zone