Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic – even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Up until a few weeks ago, it seemed these bots were mostly absent on Lemmy.

    But recently, I have noticed they have arrived here, too.

    I fully agree with your analysis.

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      10 months ago

      In what way? Lemmy has been very political from the start. It arguably got less-so after the influx of redditors.

      What are you seeing in the last month or so that makes you think there’s something more abnormal happening than usual?