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.
Yep. Banned.
https://lemmygrad.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=2803
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https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/18989
These “researchers” are grasping at straws. Someone should email the journal.
I’m willing to bet they were too lazy to check if the user had been banned, we’ve had some antisemites and fascists come around, but that shouldn’t be considered indicative of site culture because they get banned.
It’s unavoidable on sites with open registrations. Everyone knows that.
Them being routinely banned is indicative of the site cultural. That culture being: against antisemitism.
It was probably the researchers’ comment so they could actually have something to include in their paper.
I’ve run into that albanianbolshevik person on reddit and they’re a straight up nazi that believes a Jewish cabal (their exact words) runs the world.