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 🤮

  • HiddenLayer5
    13·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy instance political affiliation guide (grossly oversimplified and keep in mind there are always people of every policltical view on any sufficiently large instance, but IMO okay for a general, bird’s eye view of the ecosystem):

    • Lemmygrad is hard-line “tankie” communist.

    • Lemmy.ml is this weird but interesting bridge between hard-line communists, general leftists, and libs. We do actually have plenty of MLs on our instance, but we also have libs, and we federate with both Lemmygrad and general lib instances. Kind of this hodge podge, which is why lib-commie drama tends to take place on Lemmy.ml.

    • Wolfballs, Exploding Heads, and friends are conservative/neonazi. These are instances that Lemmy.ml doesn’t federate with.

    • I think there’s one instance that federates with literally everyone.

    • Every other instance is liberal or centrist.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      2 years ago

      I would expect that projects like Lemmy predominantly attract people who are far enough left so that they’re pushed out of mainstream liberal spaces such as reddit. This is why Hexbear and Lemmygrad are far more active than liberal instances like beehaw.

      When liberals come to Lemmy they experience a reverse culture shock of sorts where they’re not the majority view and I think this is what really stirs them up so much. All of a sudden people are challenging things they’ve been treating as facts and this scares them.

      I think there is potential for some people to be educated in the process, but for the most part they just add noise and drama for the sake of it.