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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought it would be a legitimate niche forum for sharing information. And reddit leaned further into trolling and bad behaviour.

  A systems purpose is what it does and this platform has not shown much outside of being a place for fights and self held superiority stroking.

  TL; DR I am mostly here for news links and B-Movie-Bananza cause it has some good recommendations. Not to interact or pretend this is more than the sum of its parts.

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  • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We have a different definition of troll I think. To me trolls are bad faith actors hiding racism and other disinclusive speech behind humor.

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah. It used to be just someone that would say something so inflammatory or provoking that it would force interaction or responses from the people witnessing it.

      Like an obvious joke or quote of an earworm that it creates replies. Or sometimes something rude or just wrong on purpose. Modern bad actors adopting trolling tactics is not necessarily the same thing.

      You could say trolls are like onions, they have multiple coatings.

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      • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No no, ogres are like onions.

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      • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ve been online since newsreaders were king. I try to use the current usage of words. I fully understand that trolling has been coopted by bad faith actors.

        Originally it was a fun little bit of sarcasm or an inside joke that became a proto meme or some copypasta to share around.

        Now it’s a path to the US presidency.

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      • peculiar_goat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A definition I saw many years ago was something like a troll tricks you into feeling a certain way or doing a specific thing. Could be positive, mostly done for humour, but the ones we hear most about in the media or whatever are the upsetting ones.

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