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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Filtering the names of popular political figures is leaving me with much less political news and the stuff that remains I am much more likely to care about than the usual gossip about celebrities, I mean politicians.
Honestly just filtering out the words "Trump" and "Elon" would get rid of about 95% of it all.
Gotta hand it to the news SEO teams, they know what makes effective clickbait.
Oh dang. How do I do that?
I'm using sync for Android and it's a feature. I think there are a couple other apps that have the same.
I'll check boost.