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One of the things I like about lemmy (or at least, the communities I sub to) is that the userbase seems quite on the ball with noticing and calling out bad faith bullshit like that. It’s WAY better than Reddit was (as of a year ago - haven’t frequented it since then).
I often see people fixating on efforts to call out 'bad faith' as, itself, a form of bad faith discussion. The goal is always to accuse someone with a different view of having an agenda or perhaps even being a paid shill or automated response engine working for an insidious outside agency.
You're either all uniformly in agreement on a topic, or you're an insidious demon here to trick people into perdition.
If someone is literally arguing in bad faith, what's the point in engaging with them? There's no way to persuade someone who doesn't actually care about what they're saying in the first place.
You're not arguing strictly for them, you're arguing for the audience of readers in the comments.
I suppose that's fair, but if you e.g. make a compelling counterpoint and the other person fixates on one small detail to derail the conversation, I think the people you can realistically reach will already be on your side, and anyone who wants to draw some kind of false equivalence between your respective positions wasn't going to be convinced anyways.
It's more nuanced than that of course, but in my experience that's generally the way these things play out as the thread gets longer.
That's where the more interesting conversations (even the cynical ones) ultimately live.