I’ve not heard of it before but a problematic lemmy user who got banned multiple times for sinophobia and other bigotry/harassment has became a mod of a Political Compass Memes sub on there (they haven’t it’s a lemmy thing, my bad) and the posts on that sub are already rolling out the sinophobia.
This isn’t meant to be a brigade against one user or platform, it’s more I’m shocked that sub has being allowed given the abject shit takes and bigotry that meme sub reddit generates and I find that concern tracks when past problematic users are being made mods for it.
Or is that just another lemmy instance? Ngl it all gets a bit confusing for me trapped here on lemmygrad.
Edit: I think it’s a lemmy.perthchat sub not a beehaw sub, apologies for any confusion. Still PCM is a disgrace regardless and the fact there’s one connected to lemmy now is a bit 🤮
I have not spent a lot of time there, so I cant speak from experience, but from my peaking arround it apears to be a liberal instince, dedicaded to the appearance of civility, with a rule against “sealioning” a term so broad that I feel can be used to ban asking for any evidence as trolling, and banning down voting.
Unfortunately, lemmy’s join page is pushing them because of an effort to appeal to a “more mainstream audience”
They also seem to be quite vocal in there opposition to lemmygrad.
This is a severe problem with Lemmy, ‘more mainstread audience’ means a more liberal audience, which means a more fascist audience. That’s what reddit is for and lemmy should not just become another vector for the Nazi States of America to promote their terror.
That’s why Lemmy being open-source and distributed is so nice. Lemmygrad is not part of lemmy.ml or any other instance. It is hosted separately, and only federates (connects) to other lemmy instances. If at any point, things get out of hand, we can always defederate from other instances and become completely separate, with no fascists or libs.
Yeah I just saw the sea lion rule which yeah when it’s on a very clear black and white issue such as trans rights i agree with its intent because I’ve seen transphobes and terfs requesting evidence as a bad faith argument/harassment technique but as you highlighted it can also be taken advantage of to just gives libs any excuse to make up bs about globally southern countries and roll with it so that rule seems a bit poorly implemented.