I know they’ve always been on Lemmy, but it seems like the past few weeks it’s slowly increasing, making me want to just stay on beehaw /local. Showing up on more communities, even on instances that ban that type of trolling explicitly.

Anyone else notice this?

Note: When I’m saying Tankie here, I’m not referring to far leftists, socialists, anti-capitalists, etc. I’m talking about trolls that act leftist but their actual intent is to cause infighting and support authoritarian regimes. Sealioning, all that stuff.

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It is a meaningless term now since it is used to mean something is shitty instead of the specific transition from something useful into an ad infested hellscape.

    Any term with a precise meaning becomes muddked and generic the more popular it becomes as people see it used without the context to let them kmow what it means. I would try to coin a new term for it, but why bother when it will lose all meaning in a few months?