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.

  • Nia [She/Her]@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    That’s fair, I appreciate the insight on it. It tends to be a complicated issue so I don’t think there’s really any right answer to it, all the ways of trying to solving it have huge pros and cons. Guess we do really just have to trust that all of our instance admins across the fediverse are on-top of this stuff at the end of the day

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Guess we do really just have to trust that all of our instance admins are on-top of this stuff at the end of the day

      Well, moderation can be a problem too on the fediverse, right? As instances get bigger, the scaling makes moderation harder … or at least it seems that way. That’s where the call for small instances comes in … as it enables more localised moderation across the board. And I personally think that makes a lot of sense. But it’s also unworkable for any open platform/fediverse, IMO, as people tend to aggregate and the instances dynamic just doesn’t work for many (eg BlueSky is full of people that just hated the instances experience on mastodon, which IME can get more toxic than anything happening here, as, I believe, communities help with that sort of thing).

      Point being (sorry, clearly I’m ranty) entirely trusting admins isn’t something I’d subscribe to either. I’ve recently pushed off from engaging on the communities on a particular instance on finding out that the mods/admins there likely suck (if you know, you probably know).

      If I’d offer any attempts at helping solve the problem … I’d probably say be rules based, be clear and open about intentions and policies, all along the way, to the point of self-examination, trust that a system is better than no system but that they also have to be organic and get strength from cooperative feedback across the system especially when done in line with the other ideas.

      Sorry … ranty … it was in my fingertips.

      Good chat! All the best!!