This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.

I’m not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I’ve noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like “The ineffectual left” “single issue voters” “ignorant right wing morons”. Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.

I’m not a centrist, I’m very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I’m hearing a lot of them lately.

Most egregiously I’m seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.

So I guess my question is, how’re we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?

  • mechoman444
    12•1 month ago

    I have a comment on my profile where I express some observations about the cyber truck that weren’t expressly negative and it was down voted to hell.

    Maybe not so many trolls, but there’s a lot of pretentiousness.

    • AFK BRB ChocolateEnglish
      4•1 month ago

      Just like with Reddit, there are a lot of people who use the downvote button if they just disagree, which isn’t really the intent. So you’re likely to get downvotes for any unpopular subjective opinion.

      • mechoman444
        3•1 month ago

        Yeah I generally agree with that.

        I find that people really put a lot of stock into how much they like or dislike something subjectively rather than looking at it from an objective perspective.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        But if a post gets tons of downvotes, it’s not necessarily or even often because people don’t like the opinion. It’s usually because it was pure opinion stated as a fact or in hostile language or in unreadable writing or the user was otherwise behaving like an asshole.