Unpopular Opinion
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Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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The Lemmy userbase is human, which is more than I can say of Reddit's.
The bots are showing up heavy in the last few days. It annoys me greatly since it dilutes the quality posts in my feed that generate discussion. It's a bunch of shitty memes and cartoons and it's awful.
Good thing we can just block it and get our feed back.
Yeah I have noticed a ton of posting here that reads like it's an edgelording 12 year old, that is either really stupid and then attacks anyone who replies to their stupid post with facts and reasonable replies. Often with a extremist/insane take or a really inane and stupid one.
That wasn't happening in '25 that I really noticed.
Always has been.jpg
I had to block a bunch of meme communities when I first joined to make lemmy usable for me.
No offence to anyone who enjoys memes or the below, just I prefer lemmy with less lols
HTH
Blocked Communities
lemmy world that you are on is full of influence agents, many of which are bots/chatbots, I noticed them pumping up support for the Iran war.
There's a dozen or so that post constant propaganda against countries that don't conform to US interests. Their approach is so similar that it's hard to believe there isn't something that links the accounts.
This type of behaviour is discoverable. There are probably much more subtle campaigns ongoing too. I'm undecided as to whether it is just the efforts of some 'centrist' zealots or there are some actual spooks in here.
There's also a certain type of person that just... posts that shit. I'm not saying they're bots or not bots or any damn thing, because there's tons of bot spam anyway, but I think you're underestimating how intensely shit some people's meme game is
I feel like the "hilarious chaos" instance was (is? iirc .world defederated from them so idk if they're still around) like that. They were already starting from behind with such a try-hard name, and then most of their posts were Facebook-level crap. I ran into them a lot browsing all top-hour, and my impression was that the posters were trying but had a... less refined palate than the average Lemmy user.
Oh don't forget the tankies pushing russian (and chinese) propaganda. I can never tell are they bots or useful idiots, but I always know when I hit the nail in the head when I criticize russian propaganda and get a lot of downvotes
It's both. The government pays for this type of thing. It's not just me that noticed it either. With chatbots it's never been cheaper to run these either, and apparently they do bother with little old lemmy, although it's nothing like reddit which is owned by them and corporate influence ops.
Lemmy.World is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use ,not for usa to rule
While reddit does have a not problem there are loads of people, people who LARP being some minority, and people posting thinly veiled fetish content on e.g. AITA. But bots certainly make up a higher percentage over there.
Here we got tankies, blind hate for anything done by america and lack of nuance. But the latter is just common.
snort.
I don't even disagree that that exists, but that was funny.
Yea, I'm grateful for that. But the humans are pretty awful too sometimes.
I just blocked one of those right in this post. Idk if you can see his comment anymore. His username was something like fisting lover.
FYI, when you block someone on the Fediverse you simply stop being able to see their comments and posts. They can still see and interact with anything you post.
Ok. Did you misspell FYI, or is this something new?
Oh you're right I did.
Alr