It does feel that many people here on lemmy are experiencing 1st hand of "feeding the troll". The Donald community created is probably done by less than a handful of people and it drove hundred times more amount of users to turn against each other.

This is why I frown upon the idea of defederation and I blame the users for opening that pandora's box. People, including mods, are too busy getting at each other throats and praising the value of their bubble communities rather than having any sort of planning.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sad part- I believe it was only a single account which sparked this conflict causing everyone to be at each other's throats.

[–] can 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They're constantly changing their display name too. Whether it's to be more elusive or to make their numbers look greater.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Suppose the best solution for this problem- is a better system for handling banned/toxic users...

Would need to be prob a third party script, distributed amongst multiple instances. But- that would also require a certain level of trust between admins too.

If memory serves me- back in my minecraft days- we used mcbans, pretty effectively for this purpose.

For websites / forums, I used cleartalk, which actually worked pretty effectively... but, for spammers.

I'll have to take a look and see the level of effort to integrate that into here.

[–] can 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was able to block them pretty easily. They're still just on one acct.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This time. But- when they come back in bigger numbers- its going to be a problem.

Especially, since you can get banned from one place, and turn around and sign up to another.

[–] can 7 points 2 years ago

This truly is the internet