Lately, I’ve recognized many posts from very new accounts here, usually younger than a day. They post a couple of news articles and are never to be seen again.
I’ve checked this communitiy’s modlog and many new accounts get banned relatively quickly. Their behaviour is eerily similar, even their profile pictures have similar styles, so it seems to be the same origin.
Out of curiosity, is there some lore I missed?
More seriously, I think we users in this community maybe should be more conscious about this and stop interacting with posts from these profiles.
Dunno if my post makes any sense, it’s just something weird I noticed and wanted to say something about.
I have actually noticed, and was also considering asking about this. 2 observations from my point.
The new users with a stream of posts comments in the last day…I think I have noticed them more as they seem to have a higher rate of profile pics. Lemmy does not seem big on profile pics so that stood out to me. I could likely be wrong.
More new users littering sarky or rude comments to start argumentative behaviour. It’s not even on hot topics either, it’s more subtle posts. It’s a bit odd as Lemmy is usually pretty friendly.