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?
I don’t follow !politics@lemmy.world, but stuff like !news@lemmy.world and similar have been pretty political.
But on the other hand, it’s not due to a downvoting campaign against non-political stuff or anything. It’s just because users there aren’t actually submitting much non-political news. I mean, I’m not really enthusiastic about ragebait and such, but on the other hand, I can’t exactly yell at someone for submitting something other than what I want to look at. The problem is just that there aren’t enough people out there submitting stuff that I do want to see at the moment.
I mean, the real issue is that users need to do a certain amount of submitting and/or commenting to generate interesting stuff for others to read. The ratio drops as the size of a community increases; if communities are small, there has to be a higher ratio of content creation for the community to be viable.
It doesn’t take a very high ratio if you have thousands of people in a community, but it’s still larger on the Threadiverse, in 2024, than it is on, say, Reddit.
I can see where you’re coming from. I already blocked the news because I come here for memes and don’t like following the news anyways, but yeah, if you’re looking for non-political news, I guess that can be rough.