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Everyone is being spammed with it. Tis the season

I can also confirm that political discourse is becoming less civil / productive. Or at least that's what the increasing amount of such reports I'm getting, is telling me.

Filtering the names of popular political figures is leaving me with much less political news and the stuff that remains I am much more likely to care about than the usual gossip about celebrities, I mean politicians.

Yep, and i understand that im on a western instance so western politics is to be expected but it was getting too much that All page is overwhelmed with politics to the point that i don't see posts that interest me anymore. So i just blocked political communities and also communities related to twitter. Now I interact more with the fediverse cause i actually get a chance to see things that i can relate to instead american politics.

Lately it feels like the bots have found Lemmy

lol ikr its like it's an election year for a majority of the users or something cmon i wish we could go back to the days when lemmy did not have political posts back in 2020

If you, a potential voter, are reading something, then people trying to win an election will try to put information that will influence your opinion into those sources you are reading.

Absolutely. They spam their own subs which limits reporting options. The mods of the popular ~~subs~~communities they spam don’t seem interested in doing anything unless a comment or post is an egregious/explicit/blatant violation of the rules.

The smart thing to do would be to block them, but I am not a smart man; I feel obligated to downvote them.

The good news, I guess, is Lemmy is growing to a size where following the Local (or All) feed is becoming a challenge. The bad news is Lemmy is still much too small for niche communities to be viable.

That's true of every social media platform, everywhere, before an election. Most social media companies are US companies or frequently visited by americans, but you'll find the same shit happening on foreign platforms too.

Why? Because it works. A lot of people end up voting based entirely on what seems to be the trend, so if you flood their feeds with enough propaganda, they flip.

And people with extreme views don't care about that, it just makes them feel like they're not alone and thousands of other people share their views and reinforces their narrow view of the world. And they feel entitled to be platformed too, because in their eye, everyone's going crazy and the world is really about to end. Just like a religion. Religious people genuinely think you're going to hell, no matter how sane your argument because their beliefs are more important than reality, because God is reality to them.

I haven't noticed it but I rarely look at the all communities feed instead of just my subscriptions. I do notice that a lot of users seem to be simply in the tank instead of maintaining healthy skepticism towards politicians. I also keep hearing "foreign disinfo" but that makes me chuckle. Of course it exists but it's not more potent than the domestic disinfo which is even more plentiful.

I agree and if you want it to stop make sure this November you vote for Kodos for president. Do not vote Kang as he is a terd.

Yes. If you want to actually combat them, the best way is to contact your admins.

Its the american elections. I just ban these communities