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When scrolling Lemmy (compared to reddit in the past), all I see is doom and gloom / news. I don't see interesting conversations or comments to read.

Occasionally I'll find something, and I've been contributing more, but there's just so much doom that it fills my feed.

I've had to unsubscribe from many communities bc it's just doom news reposts..

Is it just me?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy, and .ml in particular is absolutely infested with right wing trolls hiding behind the thinnest veneer of leftism who are trying to doom post over the economy and geopolitics hoping young voters will check out and not vote.

It's literally the exact same playbook from 2016, and it's amazing more people don't see it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Meh maybe a few are doing it with malicious intent but it's more likely that most of the "right wing trolls" don't even know they're right wing trolls. It's probably real people who feel genuine moral justification for their statements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not right wing trolls, it's CCP and Kremlin shills and LLMs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I found a decent amount of right-wing trolls on ml also. Though the majority hang out on other instances because ml does silence the more extreme alt-right talking points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

They're not right wing trolls, maybe not even people. It's propaganda from shills and LLMs that supports the extremes on both sides in order to fracture the target society. Divide and conquer in the 21st century.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Exhibit A right here. If you disagree, you're a troll/shill or Russian bot. Ffs people like you completely destroy meaningful discourse here and then you blame everyone else.