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    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t think that’s the case. There’s tons of right leaning and left leaning people that are bots. You can just never know. I think it comes down to the age range using this place and the culture using it. Reactionary people prefer sites like 4chan or the other online communities designed to cater to them. The age comes in because based on research the largest age demographic using Lemmy is between 25 and 35. This site is too underground to attract the middle aged and older cohort that are right wing. It’s also not hip enough to attract the under 20 crowd who make up the bulk of Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool viewers.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve run into a handful on here … but they’re always downvoted to oblivion, and even their sealioning comments often get removed by mods.

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        1 year ago

        I think since 2015-16, the hardcore redditors are now experts on seeing trolling. I bet the mods are no stranger here either.

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            1 year ago

            Just a reminder for everyone, not you specifically: Respond once, twice if you absolutely must, to clarify and then you walk away. If you’re explaining over and over, everyone is losing.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah, you just get deep comment chains that don’t add anything to the discussion. Just clicking, and clicking … and it’s just noise.

              Good lord, could you imagine?