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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s not exactly a secret, but neither is that .world really wants to federate with everyone.

You can block the whole instance yourself, as well as individual communities.

But anytime you see one about “conservatism” it’s gonna be a troll community. Either trolling everyone else, or to troll the handful of conservatives that are on here

Don’t get hung up on idiots using the internet, just block them and move on

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P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I tend to agree but I’m sick of giving stupid people a voice. This is how they became prominent in the first place. Anti-vaxxers, Russian propagandists, this isn’t something we should allow. Blocking it doesn’t solve anything in the same way that appeasement doesn’t stop dictators. Let them have tiktok and Facebook. But not here.

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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  I tend to agree but I’m sick of giving stupid people a voice
  
  You’re not “giving them a voice”…
  
  You’re feeding the trolls
  
  Like, it’s fucking Lemmy, you’re not out there protecting millions of people from misinformation. You’re the reason they’re doing it in the first place
  
  Without people like you, they wouldn’t still be doing it.
  
  So I’m gonna take my own advice
  
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  - P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    God damn. Ok.
    
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  - Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    hard disagree. arent we past the stage where we dismiss right-wingers as trolls? they are always “just trolls”, until there is enough of them to cause an issue for everyone. if they are on lemmy, that to me points towards them wanting to establish a community here. why? no idea. but it always starts with “just a few trolls”
    
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    givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    if they are on lemmy, that to me points towards them wanting to establish a community here. why? no idea.
    
    To get attention…
    
    Commenting on their posts to tell them they’re wrong, upvoting people who already have, or even downvoting the post is all “engagement” which shoves the problematic community down every one else’s feed. Even making those “community spotlights” fairly regularly.
    
    I mean, you’re flat out saying you don’t understand, I’m putting effort in to help you explain why not to feed the trolls…
    
    This isn’t new, this is basic internet literacy.
    
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You’re letting the trolls spread lies. So, good job?
    
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