Fediverse

I don't think it's an uptick, it's been around for as long as I've used the Fediverse.

I've never understood the mindset that this social site is made up of a different mix of personalities than any other. It's not. There's very nice people here and there's very mean people here. Often, the very nice are quiet so you won't always notice them but the meanest are usually very outspoken and everyone comes across something left by them. Hatred, ignorance and toxicity is not something that's left at the door of the fediverse.

Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot?

Yes.

People are hostile idiots sometimes, also, so that doesn't help. But yes, people are definitely trying to stir up deliberate ballache for whatever weird reasons of their own.

Leaving the 3 biggest news comms has been one of the best things I've done recently.

I haven't, but then again I don't subscribe to News or Politics communities.

Nothing out of the ordinary personally.

Meta communities are prompt to drama, but that's the usual.

Edit: I just remember I've seen a few one-day account posting obvious ragebait. That usually gets removed quickly.

Edit2: example https://lemmy.world/post/33629252

Bots originating in russa, china, etc, etc spreading social unrest

Those countries want to divide us and it’s working

Yes have noticed more rage bait. Also more and more culture wars in comments. Still not anywhere near as bad as reddit.

I used to see new accounts with weird names posting long AMAs in the !askmeanything@lemmy.ca community.

Are those LLM bots or are they real users?

Or is the world just pissed about the state of things?

Not inflammatory, but I've noticed some new users who come only to do self promotion, without engaging in anyting else in the platform. Mostly in art related comms but also a couple trying to promote a shady website or the like. Even though my account is new I've been browsing for a good while and dislike people that are only looking for an audience not a community.

Definitely. Most of the time communities are friendly and supportive - but I've noticed too that there are users who seem deliberately scratchy and saying things that are looking to provoke and who become fizzy if they're challenged in any way about something they've said. I wondered if it's much younger users who are coming from other places having picked up the "fight me" attititude there.

Im new but ive noticed a ton of slop news is spammed by the same handful of accounts only. None of the articles add anything new or provide a unique perspective. Then its spammed over all the news subs. Its annoying but im not a mod what can i do.

I think that slop news posts are intentionally inflammatory because they add no new information and only seek to evoke an emotional reaction.

As a fairly new user to lemmy I have found that the community can be pretty brutal and there are quite a lot of set things that are frowned upon. Windows always gets a lot of abuse, but for me here in the UK the amount of Mac and Linux users is miniscule, for example... yet Windows is frowned upon greatly. Sp whilst not raging, it is deffo anti a fair few things. I know it is to be expected as it is a fairly technical things to use lemmy/piefed/fediverse but it still makes me wince. Like everything these days, the less passionate just don't post any more so it does bring out some strong responses

I've seen one Dunno about a large influx. But it didn't last long.

Intentionally inflammatory posts? I haven't noticed an uptick, honestly. Doesn't mean there isn't one and doesn't mean I won't notice now that you posted it.

But I will say that I've basically stopped checking my notifications because all of a sudden it seems like almost every time I go in there, I've got at least one insufferable, hostile, negative, etc response or message in there. It didn't used to be that way.

Mostly I assume we must've recently gotten an influx of new users from Reddit or someplace similarly toxic. Things usually get a bit unfortunate for a time when that happens.

If you keep out of Political Communities then you may not see them.

I've noticed more debatelords (only in large communities, like c/technology), not sure they will stay if we don't feed them and the more debatelordy instances just simply ban them.

Any influx of new users that appear to be valid human meat popsicles should be the new normal. Would you like to create a downloadable zip file of a codebase that demonstrates this?