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I've seen around 3 occasions of that this week, altho I have never seen anything like it before.

if I remember correctly they were:

  • smack talking a mod (FlyingSquid) for saying not to report the same comment twice, when they were different comments, and the report was spam
  • someone comparing .world with .ml in politics (as in there was a comment saying "this post will be overrun with .ml people, and then a comment going "but you are from .world") (Maybe Im part of the problem? I have been called out for being a fascist because I questioned the "puching nazis" theme)
  • one more which I can't remember.

Anyways, what is all that about? Are people really starting to hate on 50% of the lemmy population because of their instance?

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 month ago (4 children)

.world is the biggest instance and therefore a prime choice for trolls to create accounts. Most of the trash posts I’ve seen lately are from brand new users on lemmy.world

I am equally suspicious of brand new lemmy.world users as I am of veterans of lemmy.ml. Older accounts on .world are usually pretty normal.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is why I chose lemmynsfw. No one doubts our intent

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How's it like living in fantasy-land where every single one of your opinions online is correct and you can never be wrong? (/s in case you're incredibly dull.)

It's so incredibly stupid to not have downvotes fucking hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well, it is stupid if applied generally, but I can see the reasons making sense for lemmynsfw. You want to encourage people and not hurt their feelings yadda yadda

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A big number of instances don't federate with lemmynsfw though, so there's a lot of users who don't see the messages of the users from that instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank the gods.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I want to upvote you, but your tally is at 69 right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Your comment has been noticed and new bots are inbound. Close your doors.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I like to think of myself as normal lol

I'm here because kbin.social died and this was my next oldest account

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I moved to fedia.io because it is basically kbin.social, but working.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I moved to kbin.earth (which later migrated to mbin).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Glad to hear kbin/mbin is still alive. Any good communities/“magazines” there I should check out?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I tried fedia.io, but it's mobile website design is pure ass. It's nice on my tablet, where there's more room for the design to breathe a bit.....but smooshed together on the cell phone layout, nothing makes sense. I want to like it, but I'm only on my tablet like 20% of the time. Cell phone is my main use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Good to hear you found something that works for you. Personally, I've had no problems browsing on phone, though every right sidebar being in the top-left hamburger menu took a while to get used to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I probably would have gone there, but I didn't want to make another new account, so I just ended up falling back to one I already had.

[–] RogueBanana 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Haven't heard of the news. Do you mind telling me what happened to kbin?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The developer and admin, Ernest, went through a rough patch in his life. Development and server upkeep fell off during this time, and it wasn't picked back up again. I don't think anyone's heard from him in a long while now, but I don't really know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My twin, I was on kbin.social as well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lemmy.world is popular, which has its pros and cons. At least you didn't pick hexbear lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My first account in this place was on .ml because it was only them and beehaw at the time, and I ended up deleting it once controversy popped up lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my experience (hexbear and .ml instances excluded) the majority of trolls I encounter seems to be from either infosec.pub or blahaj.zone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I usually see them from ee or sh.it.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Those blasted canadians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How dare you call me normal good sir.