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?

  • @Today
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    11 month ago

    How do you do that? When i go to the community info page and click share, i get the http …

    • Lemminary
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      1 month ago

      Just type “!” followed by the name of the sub. Make sure it’s the registered name and not the display name. You can find that on the sidebar as below.

      • @Today
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        1 month ago

        On jerboa, when i click share (which is the only place i can copy the community name) i get https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy

        So, then i would have to delete, rearrange, and add ! and @