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 🤮

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    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.