This study investigates the presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad.ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou.
We conduct a temporal analysis on Lemmygrad.ml’s user activity, with also measuring the degree of highly abusive or hateful content. Furthermore, we explore the content of their posts using a transformer-based topic modeling approach.
Our findings reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad.ml.
We also identify posts that support authoritarian regimes, endorse the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and feature anti-Zionist and antisemitic content.
Overall, our findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of political extremism within decentralized social networks and emphasize the necessity of analyzing both ends of the political spectrum in research.
They love to say this, then they try it and get completely called out and banned within 30 minutes
Meanwhile, the average liberal.
Every time they try this they give themselves away by trying to say Comrade Putin or something transphobic
I mean you can just take the opposite of the US foreign policy position on any given issue and >90% of the time you’ll be on the right side of history. What makes chuds easy to spot is that they can’t help doing something racist while they’re at it.
A lemmitor making bad faith arguments and making shit up? Well I never—
Proceeds to immediately out themselves by saying racist shit directed towards Palestinians, Roma or Russians.