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Sometimes you see a wild political take on Lemmy and you open their profile and see them praising Russia and China.

Nah bro, I remember that post where some guy was criticizing OP's cooking, so OP checks that dude's post history and finds how he drinks his own piss.

I'm pretty sure OP won that argument by just mentioning that

I don't know if I'd go that far. It's one of the easiest ways to identify troll behavior. Sure going through and analyzing every post is insane, but being able to click on someone's history and see that oh they say stupid stuff for reactions regularly is pretty helpful. I'd also argue that it's helpful when people are making intellectually dishonest arguments when they have ulterior motives. Racist dog whistles for instance, when someone makes an argument that's a pretty obvious dog whistle and then claims they're just asking questions the Post history can sometimes help cut through that nonsense.

I look to see if they are a troll depending on what they wrote. If someone’s life boils down to the need to win something in internet comments, they can have it. They got bigger problems to contend with even if they don’t see it yet.

Yes. It’s not good for reddit’s business if you can easily tell bot accounts, so they introduced this new feature

Bots or nazis. It's real convenient that we can't see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever

I mean I have mine hidden. Have wanted the feature for years. Really wish lemmy would add it, but so far they've refused.