Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam?
Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam?
I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up.
Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?
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Consider using one of the Lemmy apps that supports key word filters.
Filter out the names of the parties and vice/prez hopefuls and you'll cut 90% of it from your feed.
Blocking communities you're not interested in is also helpful if you visit All. It's an uphill battle - I've blocked over 600 (sports and yiff porn probably account for 500 of those... jfc...) and still need to do some pruning, but my All is pretty personalized now.
From what I've seen 99% of coffee points comes from one instance, you could just block that instance.