I’m with you. I think !politicalmemes in particular is just very vulnerable to forgetting the human on the other side of the screen and I’m trying to call that out because it spreads quite quickly to the rest of the platform as we saw with some of the recent misogyny stuff.
Like, looking at the vote count now it seems like genuinely ~half of this community thinks that bot action is more likely than, as you say, useful idiots and similar.
Other platforms like TikTok and Instagram, for all their flaws, at least have an ever present face element, proving every moment to the user that the other person is living and breathing and may or may not have had breakfast this morning. That’s something that Lemmy lacks to an extreme degree, in a parallel fashion to Twitter, Reddit, et al.
Politically, human dignity is important to me. There is room for that discussion of humanity and autonomy, but it’s certainly not foremost of all. Human dignity cannot manifest if we begin and end conversations by calling into question whether there’s a human capable of making decisions on the other end of the line.