I’m a long time Lemmy lurker and occasional Redditor. Since the Reddit influx, I’ve watched the frequency of shitty Reddit-type behavior, e.g., combative comments, trolling, and unnecessary rudeness, just sky rocket.
I’m happy to have more content on Lemmy, but I wish the bad actors and assholes would have stayed on Reddit.
Yes, I realize the irony of posting this on a new community that’s basically a Reddit transplant.
The trolls, though, those are here to stay I’m afraid. Internet is the internet, you need a private community to truly guarantee none of them forever.
Can’t that be mitigated with blocklists, like with ads or spam calls? Like imagine if you could subscribe to a blocklist where it’s updated regularly. It could be self-maintaining. If 10 people block a certain account, it gets shadowbanned for every other subscriber.
Most of them, yeah, probably. Though you’d need anti-abuse measures to prevent it from being weaponized. Would be hard to balance. And particularly good trolls can’t be caught, too, that’s half the point. They can really only be smothered by superior content and not upvoted. You don’t really want to downvote them either, ideally.
Make them feel awkward and unengaged. That’s the strongest defense.
