I know they’ve always been on Lemmy, but it seems like the past few weeks it’s slowly increasing, making me want to just stay on beehaw /local. Showing up on more communities, even on instances that ban that type of trolling explicitly.

Anyone else notice this?

Note: When I’m saying Tankie here, I’m not referring to far leftists, socialists, anti-capitalists, etc. I’m talking about trolls that act leftist but their actual intent is to cause infighting and support authoritarian regimes. Sealioning, all that stuff.

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    14·
    8 months ago

    Wasn’t HexBear down for a bit and a lot of people were making accounts on Lemmy.ml or something?

    Edit: Someone said it was Lemmygrad which sounds right

    • Mastengwe@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

      .ml is really just a way for the hexbear clowns to circumvent their defederarion. If you filter that shithole out also, it’s a lot better experience here.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      The accounts I’ve seen are in other locations. It also doesn’t feel like the Hexbear crowd as they have a specific way of arguing.

      • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        I’m not sure. It could have to do with certain instances connecting to new communities or maybe there was a popular post bringing more people to the fediverse.

        Might be worth seeing if there was a surge in new members.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I think they were more on grad, at least there was an admin post there telling the refugees to behave.