The brooklyn lib seems to be encroaching on your territory in the world news community, turning it into /r/worldnews! Keep up the good fight, yogthos. I’m new to Lemmy in general and I’m sad to see I missed the days before the liberal invasion.
Yes, note that it’s basically 5 people again just spamming their shit all over plus the oldtimers who for some reason were not banned like pingveno or that Romanian guy.
I don’t even think they are necessarily the reddit libs, look like how they promote beehaw all the time, most likely those are the same guys as always.
tbf to the devs, despite being comrades, I get why they want to maintain more of a neutral instance, they already get people whining and calling them evil tankies for not banning us, like that one mastodon user (who insists that everyone should switch to kbin instead!!!), could you fucking imagine the shit storm if they started banning libs like that?
Yeah, saw you tried engaging with similar results. It’s pretty clear that talking to these trolls isn’t really productive. I think just downvoting them and moving on might be the way.
I think you’re right. There’s no real attempt to understand what we’re saying. You just get told that even though you (repeatedly) said X, you must’ve meant Y. Where can a conversation even go with that attitude?
It’s like talking about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls and being told you’re wrong about him playing football for Argentina.
I really have very little interest in engaging with trolls. Sometimes, it’s not obvious that someone is a troll, though, but once started there’s a kind of duty to reiterate one’s point and make sure one’s views aren’t misrepresented. Still, I know now and shall try not to engage.
Maybe one way forward is for us (and other like-minded users) to keep engaging in those communities but only/mainly with each other.
I agree, I think we do need to engage in these communities, but we have to be careful to avoid feeding the trolls. I find the only value is to provide information for other people who might read the thread, but it’s so easy to just go down a rabbit hole. I catch myself doing that all the time, and then I’m like why did I keep replying.
I do think that multiple people replying once and explaining why the troll is wrong is a lot more effective than a single person trying to debate them though.
haha yeah I think I’m just about done there, it’s just a couple of clowns repeating the same drivel over and over there
That brooklyn lib is basically your evil twin.
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The brooklyn lib seems to be encroaching on your territory in the world news community, turning it into /r/worldnews! Keep up the good fight, yogthos. I’m new to Lemmy in general and I’m sad to see I missed the days before the liberal invasion.
Yeah, growth definitely comes at a cost. I think it’s going to be important to push back against these people from the start.
Yes, note that it’s basically 5 people again just spamming their shit all over plus the oldtimers who for some reason were not banned like pingveno or that Romanian guy.
I don’t even think they are necessarily the reddit libs, look like how they promote beehaw all the time, most likely those are the same guys as always.
Yeah, out of thousands of people that joined, it’s literally just a couple of trolls sucking up all the air.
tbf to the devs, despite being comrades, I get why they want to maintain more of a neutral instance, they already get people whining and calling them evil tankies for not banning us, like that one mastodon user (who insists that everyone should switch to kbin instead!!!), could you fucking imagine the shit storm if they started banning libs like that?
Yeah, kinda sad. They already have tons of their places in the fediverse they could fuck off there.
If only, comrade, if only
I bet my fourth left toe that beehaw is a fed honeypot
It’s been… tough… to say the least.
Yeah, saw you tried engaging with similar results. It’s pretty clear that talking to these trolls isn’t really productive. I think just downvoting them and moving on might be the way.
I think you’re right. There’s no real attempt to understand what we’re saying. You just get told that even though you (repeatedly) said X, you must’ve meant Y. Where can a conversation even go with that attitude?
It’s like talking about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls and being told you’re wrong about him playing football for Argentina.
I really have very little interest in engaging with trolls. Sometimes, it’s not obvious that someone is a troll, though, but once started there’s a kind of duty to reiterate one’s point and make sure one’s views aren’t misrepresented. Still, I know now and shall try not to engage.
Maybe one way forward is for us (and other like-minded users) to keep engaging in those communities but only/mainly with each other.
I agree, I think we do need to engage in these communities, but we have to be careful to avoid feeding the trolls. I find the only value is to provide information for other people who might read the thread, but it’s so easy to just go down a rabbit hole. I catch myself doing that all the time, and then I’m like why did I keep replying.
I do think that multiple people replying once and explaining why the troll is wrong is a lot more effective than a single person trying to debate them though.