Is it bots? Are those humans whos mission is to cause chaos? Is the weird behaviour caused by the creation of the concept of lemmy?

Somebody please explain to me wtf is going on.

They answer destructive comments, assuming shit, demanding shit. Are they trolls?

Are they being paid for causing chaos? It’s insane

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    21 days ago

    They existed on their own Lemmy instance for years before federating at some point last year.
    So, they likely had their own way of interacting, commenting, moderating etc that worked for them, that they had used/built/developed themselves (I mean systems & rules, not software) for years.
    And they federated shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
    So an echo chamber of extreme left wing users suddenly getting to interact with a whole bunch of new people, and an inrush of more mainstream users. It made for an interesting 6 or so months.

    I haven’t had any bad interactions with them directly, however I have seen and disagreed with a lot of their behaviour.
    Not sure if I have their instance blocked, or if my instance has defederated them.