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?
tbh not really
Even the largest comment threads tend to only have a select few comments that are either blatant shilling or next level dumb.
Everyone else seems to have at least several comments that match their opinion.
Even the complaints about .ml spamming seem mostly untrue, I haven’t really seen any spam or mod deleted content.
ml and world defnitley mod or ban eachother, but I don’t think they’re increasing in trolls.