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Steer clear from some instances, or at least, take everything they say with a massive grain of salt. Hexbear, Lemmygrad and lemmy.world come to mind.
If your client allows it, use the tag function to tag the same users from different instances, all the cross posts will become very obvious.
You might get contacted by Nicole, a bot that took a dark turn recently, just report and block.
Also report and block spam, sometimes it's porn, sometimes it's gore, other times it's ads, just report and block.Don't be an asshole, and contribute by commenting and posting, or financially supporting Lemmy development or running your instance (if you can afford it obviously). Join smaller instances if you can, the more decentralized, the better. Also given the federated nature of Lemmy, you might see a whole different feed from one instance to the other, it's nice to have that option.
I don't think it's good advice to just say "be especially suspicious of those spooky Marxist commies!"
I don't mind Communists and Marxists, I do mind authoritarian morons and tankies though
You do mind Communists and Marxists, though, Hexbear and Grad have opinions and stances aligned with most major Communist orgs. If you're going to have a problem with Marxists and Communists, then it makes more sense to honestly own up to that, rather than upholding the Ubisoft Marx from Assassin's Creed as legitimate.
"Tankie" is just "pinko" or "commie" in the modern day, it's just a pejorative for Communists. Further, all governments are authoritarian, all exert authority, what matters is which class is exerting its authority.
What do you mean a bot that took a dark turn?
Someone, possibly a different person than sent the original Nicole spam, shared a gore image claiming it was Nicole dead.
Nooo, Nicole!
Ah ok idk who Nicole is but that a very weird thing to do.
Is there any news? Nicole community was closed, people (as far as I understand) went to the police after gore pictures, and now it looks like the community has been completely deleted.