Lemmy is immune to this, right? Riiiight?

With the knowledge/reports that this was going on by Russia in the 2016 election (reports dropped during the election cycle) with suggestions that other countries were likely doing the same, I am not surprised. Hell, it was exposed that even the Trump campaign had their own “grass roots astroturfing troll farm” division.

It’s made me incredibly skeptical of posters. But it’s not too hard to spot potential trolls. I’m also sure there’s those that operate in a far more subtle way that even my skepticism doesn’t capture.

I wish the communities here had better rules in place to mitigate this. But the rules tend to lean towards “benefit of the doubt” instead of a harder line on dis-incentivizing this from happening throughout our moderated communities. Maybe part of that is a limitation of Lemmy MOD Tools, but another part is definitely a lack of stronger definitions and enforcement of disallowed behavior (bad faith arguments) and enforcement of those rules.