Yesterday it kinda hit me that the feed left a lot more “reddit-y” suddenly. More american politics for one.
There is a also aspecific thing that alerted me: Sudden appearance of this pattern plagueing reddit where a post about some bad muslim person escalates into edgy atheism which is also kinda racist and lowkey fascist in a very specific way.
I don’t have a lot of empiric evidence, just the vibe seems to have shifted.
there are. it’s angry weirdos who want to flood lemmy with their miserable stupid views.
a few of them have multiple accounts on multiple instances so they can spam their crappy posts and comments.
several people on my block list, are the same username at different instances, and with the same post histories.
and they are super hostile if you call them out, and will report you for ‘harassment’. Meanwhile they are harassing the fediverse pushing their ‘truth’. Usually some flavor of doomerism about how every thing is always awful and this is the worst time to be alive ever. and if you try to counterpoint them, especially with evidence, they will insult, threaten you, and report you for harassment.
it’s interesting, because yeah there are other users who post less, whose comments/posts are far more diverse in content, tone, and communities, but well you won’t notice them as much because they aren’t making 100s of comments and dozens of posts a day, repeating the same miserable talking points ad nauseam, usually in one liners where they harass and insult anyone they perceive as a threat to their views.