At the same time, easier, in that there is a lot less toxicity and bots targeting the lemmyverse

Like recently, I found a reddit thread that had a pretty obviously racist meme.

It was extremely highly upvoted, but something really felt uncanny about it, because I know racism is ramping up, but this was too blunt to feel natural to me.

Then, so many comments defending the racism were there it was odd.

That’s when I decided to look into the profiles of these comments and 9/10 of them were a year old or less, with very few comments or completely hidden profiles.

It was one of the most blatant bot/troll farm attacks I’ve ever seen and kinda shocked me.

All of there comments seemed very humanly written, but the account ages being all similar was too big a tell for me to think it was organic.

Basically, I think we’re cooked if people keep using centralized websites and or if we dont have a way to figure out what is genuine from what isn’t.

The average person goes with the flow and doesn’t think too hard about things. If through trolls or bots a country, nation state or group of billionaires can change what appears to be public opinion, we’re fucked.