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!

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
      221·
      8 months ago

      im not on lemmy but I see regular buy drugs here, how to change your flight booking (no idea how that scam whatever it is works), or for some reason random keyboard characters like a person randomly banged on the homerow keys. may not be paid but apparently someone thinks the fediverse is worth crapping up.

    • the post of tom joad
      9·
      8 months ago

      Oh i doubt that. According to a few people I’ve spoken with i’m a paid troll.

      That aside it’s good to be suspicious that any reasonably populated online space has is share of astrotrurfers. Hell, remember snowdens revelations shows federal agents had fuggen World of Warcraft and xbox live accounts

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      115·
      8 months ago

      No one is paying troll farms to go comment on lemmy though

      Could you tell that to the c/politics commenters who seem to think russian shills lurk behind every rock?

      • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
        34·
        8 months ago

        I don’t really think political spending is going towards Lemmy trolls, much less like…national propaganda spending. Shitty advertising bots maybe.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          8 months ago

          I don’t really think political spending is going towards Lemmy trolls

          Nor do I. I don’t think lemmy is large enough for such spending to have enough return on investment to make it worthwhile. But it’s convenient to dismiss deviations from centrist orthodoxy as the output of shills, and so it happens.

        • Syn_Attck@lemmy.today
          64·
          8 months ago

          There are 2 million monthly active Lemmy users. That’s a vast untapped market of grassroots users many who likely aren’t on many other platforms, due to the nature of Lemmy.

          The first state actor to get in on the ground floor and shape the collective opinion of lemmings as a whole will influence the future outlook of every user of the fediverse. Especially young people. Majority opinion, majority rule.

          I believe we can see this taking place on instances like .world and hexbear, but I’m sure it’s happening in a semi-automated fashion across most instances.