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.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    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.

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      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.