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 🤮

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Due to the nature of the project you can’t really prevent people from starting their own instances, there’s apparently already a couple for reactionaries…

      But it’s open source software that anyone can install on a server, so there’s really no way to prevent them from using it.

      However other instances are able not to federate with them, which is already the case here for lemmygrad for example. We’ve blocked known reactionary instances and thus they can’t interact with us and we can’t interact with them.