And of course, the best for last, the best comm on the Lemmy-verse, !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !!! Just make sure to buy a krabby patty!
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they’re mostly on what's known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won't be "synced" and you won't see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog"
I would love it if reddit clamped down on free speech. Please reddit, just lay it out on what else you want to limit. Let the people know what else they can't say. Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires. It would make my day. Please reddit, put more gas on your dumpster fire
We will eventually have bots like that on lemmy and other federated networks too. It wasn't long between the advent of email and spam email. (spam predates email -- the term is from the BBS era...)
They're here, but they're obvious when they post so they get buried. I've seen them make their own posts with built in upvotes, but real people just ignore it. It's not that huge of a problem yet. I'm sure it will be when they build up enough accounts, that's the only way they can get any traction at all.
They'll have to split these accounts across many different instances for it to be effective. Else it'll be too easy to defederate with instances that allow too many spam accounts.
Is this something on their radar yet? I would think it would be easier to do it here because you could have separate accounts on many instances with even the same email.