Its all from one spammer who threadiverse folks regularly talk about needing to manage spam from (if I'm not mistaken about who it is. They change usernames all the time and I don't keep up with their accounts cause I'm not an admin)
The mods appear to have dealt with the issue appropriately. For me it only shows 77 comments as the "count", but there are like a bajillion deleted comments by the same guy
Thats a super cool visualization! This might make a really cool post for !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world! Maybe a screenshot with a seperate link to the site
I'm also open to thoughts on "lemmites"! Its what I default to but I suppose it may be presumptuous for me to assume its what everyone uses, or wants to use :)
There is no overcoming this mess without them escalating. If you approach it correctly, their escalation can be used to reach more of the population and get greater public buy-in, which is needed to win.
But there is either being ineffectual and they only escalate as they find new minority groups to target, OR you legitimately challenge their power and they escalate faster and hopefully you can leverage that into a public image problem that they can't ignore, and the regime looses their critical mass of support.
From there resistance efforts can escalate without loosing as much public approval. But there's no way out of this where they don't kill a lot of people. Thats the nature of a fascist dictatorship. It would necessarily have to get worse before it could get better.
Yeah. Hopefully the increasing importance will drive more development time and users that way incrementally, and things will improve.
My impression is that for the moment things are still a rough, just have to hope it won't stay that way.