Maybe your instance is federating with someone new that does a lot of bot posting? Sometimes all it takes is one person on the instance to join a very active bot community and next thing you know members are seeing a ton of new bot posts.
Editing to add- On Lemmy you can turn off viewing bot accounts completely in your account settings if you don't ever want to see them.
i also noticed a recent sync in-congruence from .ml to .world which indicates some kind of funny business... purposeful or not
This isn't unique to world or ml. There's some wonky shit going on with federating across Lemmy at the very least, maybe other parts of the fediverse that I don't use. On walledgarden there are at least half a dozen instances that are falling in and out of sync with our communities. No one on either side of the connection seems to have an answer for what caused this behavior or how to correct it. Talking to some other instances, we aren't alone.
The lemmyverse crawler/site has also shown some odd behavior with communities and instances disappearing and reappearing seemingly at random.
I don't think anything malicious is being done by any of the instances or admins in regards to federation delays.
I think it was the FP2 commentators who mentioned all the teams and drivers have a plan until you get to turn 1 and see what everyone else does. There's a very real chance we have a melee into T1 and the race becomes a war of attrition. Time will tell.
FWIW the communities on walledgarden.xyz have been having federation issues to lemmy.ml for a few days as well.
Since we were/are working through some things with our host I didn't want to bother anyone from lemmy.ml about it, but it's a thing. AFAIK federation is otherwise working normally.
Back when I used reddit it seemed like everyone threw around Fascist in a similar way. Lemmy seems to prefer Tankie. For a lot of people the thinking doesn't go any farther than "I disagree with you, therefore you are ________ist" or whatever.
True enough. Just look at Imola, for instance. Though I suppose it goes back to what the definition of a "great track" is.
Track opinions are a lot like driver opinions where a lot of times they're "as good as their last race" in the public eye. Tracks will also swing in and out of favorability depending on how the regs suit them at any given time, and whatever geopolitical issues are around at the time.
It's hard to really judge all of them simultaneously imo, and that's just part of series racing.
If you're using the Boost app, there is a toggle for it. You can find it by going to your profile and hitting the "Edit" button.
They are meant to be self reporting/labeled by the creator. There is also a setting for that in the account page.
Note that these options will be slightly different to change on the webui but it can be done even if you aren't a Boost user.