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?
I thought it has always been like that?
Lemmy APIs are free of charge, so spamming stuff here makes sense from a financial viewpoint. It also makes it trivial to ingest the data for GenAI use.