Personally, I think it would be ideal to have one to two instance left wing trolls. If you don’t want to deal with them, you can block them but I think that having 1 to 2 instance trolls or just allowing trolls in general could help drive traffic here and make the place fun especially if you do not take their bullshit too seriously. There is always the risk that they Do a mass rush though. But at least we would get to talk shit to an actual person.
I don’t care that much. I only get frustrated if I’m trying to message you guys and they are posting from a million alts cluttering my free. Down votes do become meaningless if to many bots are here and the bot problem is getting bad at Lemmy. I suggest you guys keep email verification on most the time if it’s working.