Yeah. It’s a big problem. I was alarmed seeing people that I knew to be bad-faith political trolls starting to make new political communities to “compete” in the discourse space with places like !politics@lemmy.world (which itself is pretty much a pile of ass for different reasons, but that’s a separate conversation). And, since then, those innocent looking communities been steadily growing in power and influence.
They now have themselves a whole new instance, too: https://altmedia.house/. One fun exercise is to pick one of the names at random out of that “this community likes” list in the sidebar, and see what that person thinks about Russia or the Ukraine war. Except for people like Noam Chomsky who are out of circulation currently, in every single one of the people I tried that with just to investigate, I found some bullshit.
Yeah. It’s a big problem. I was alarmed seeing people that I knew to be bad-faith political trolls starting to make new political communities to “compete” in the discourse space with places like !politics@lemmy.world (which itself is pretty much a pile of ass for different reasons, but that’s a separate conversation). And, since then, those innocent looking communities been steadily growing in power and influence.
They now have themselves a whole new instance, too: https://altmedia.house/. One fun exercise is to pick one of the names at random out of that “this community likes” list in the sidebar, and see what that person thinks about Russia or the Ukraine war. Except for people like Noam Chomsky who are out of circulation currently, in every single one of the people I tried that with just to investigate, I found some bullshit.