This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.

I’m not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I’ve noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like “The ineffectual left” “single issue voters” “ignorant right wing morons”. Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.

I’m not a centrist, I’m very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I’m hearing a lot of them lately.

Most egregiously I’m seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.

So I guess my question is, how’re we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?

  • Pojankolli@discuss.tchncs.de
    295·
    6 months ago

    I think some communities might benefit from a very strict no-politics rule. Because this right wing trolling is ruining lemmy for me.

    • YeetPics@mander.xyz
      168·
      6 months ago

      Like when all the rightoids show up to a discussion and spam image macros of pigs shitting on their own balls?

      Get real, this is a left-centered platform, 98% of the trolls aren’t right wing, not by a country mile.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
        82·
        6 months ago

        The Russians are all over hexbear. Read the rare thread about Ukraine over there and it’s literally the same shit the Russian trolls say.

        These aren’t leftists, they are right wingers (barely) pretending to be leftists.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          Seriously. Remember this when it comes time to vote. Their goal with all of this is to emotionally and mentally exhaust you so you give up before its voting time.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      1619·
      6 months ago

      “no politics” is what the right says when you suggest that maybe gay people are people. What you mean is a “no conservatives” rule.

    • Ozone6363@lemmy.world
      621·
      6 months ago

      Hilarity.

      “Right wing” for this community is if someone is a capitalist.

      Ya’ll have a super left wing echo chamber that’s freaking out about any dissent.

      This sort of shit is exactly why everyone is a political extremist now. You insert yourselves into communities that only agree with you.