I don’t mean those who are paid to do so -their motivation is obvious. I mean people who are destructive out of their own motivation and represent untenable points of view. Are they really serious about this?What’s the point?

I mean, it can’t all be the propaganda machine. What would be the point of trying that with Lemmy, who is paid for it? With LLMs, I can still understand that it could be done very economically, but even here there are real people who do it. Why? How did they come up with that? What is the goal? What drives them to do it?

I don’t get that at all.

  • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    20 hours ago

    Sometimes over the years I’ve been accused of trolling where I’d consider it an obvious joke. But I tend to have a very dry and weird sense of humor that often includes, “what would be the worst possible thing to say right now?” So I sorta get the confusion/overlap. Anyway, that’s pretty mild on the internet trolling spectrum overall.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      20 hours ago

      Yes, yes, please don’t misunderstand: a certain amount of trolling seems perfectly appropriate to me. I even believe that there are people who can hardly be dealt with in any other way. But I’m talking about trolling on this platform, where, in my opinion, there are relatively few absurd opinions that cannot be countered with arguments. Of course, there are also views here that run counter to rational thinking, but after more than two years here, it seems to me that most users, despite perhaps destructive views, are still somewhat reasonably willing to accept arguments (if not, in my opinion, it’s best to simply ignore them).

      I mean, fortunately, we’re still quite a long way from reddit or even X or Truth Social here. So it seems to me that there is at least a willingness to discuss things here, which is why I can’t really understand why anyone would want to undermine that. I’m not referring to you at all, of course, and I very much appreciate your answer - I completely agree.

      I’m just trying to understand why even here there are apparently people who are bent on pointless confrontation. I just don’t get that.