u/LeninMeowMeow moderates a large amount of big subreddits, r/therightcantmeme, r/gamingcirclejerk, r/animememes, r/greenandpleasent (a known russian propaganda subreddit source: Center for European Policy Analysis (think Lemmygrad)) and much more.
Anyways on r/lemmy, he says that lemmy.world is right-wing and thatcherite. I reply that it is more social democratic.
I instantly get banned from the subreddits he moderates and blocked by him. I have not commented or participated in any of their subreddits before, and this is my first ever encounter with them.
Weird and concerning behaviour. I fear that tankies are taking over most left wing spaces on reddit (not that I really use reddit for politics anymore, that’s why I’m on lemmy, but for the implications to our democracies, as a non-negligible chunk of voters are politically influenced by reddit).
This sounds almost like he’s been paid to denigrate Lemmy in hopes of keeping some of the rapidly declining Reddit population from leaving… It’s clear he’s never actually used Lemmy which is way more left leaning than Reddit honestly
I’m so glad I left the corporate cesspool that Reddit has become
Reddit? Pay their mods?!
No but I agree. It’s very sus to say the right has taken over Lemmy, and then laude lemmy.ml and hexbear for their left wing positions.
Like yeah they’re… Left wing… All the way oof the cliff, denying Tiananmen Square and trying to get actual social democrats to join sketchy Chinese communist parties.
This mods take on Lemmy is either paid for or he’s a tankie.
Any Reddit super moderator who survived the Rexodus bent the knee to Spez and did not maintain closures. They valued their stance as a moderator over others more than the shit getting pulled. He absolutely would have been present for those meetings and message rooms during that time. Anyone like that is not a friend of the average user of any platform.
I didn’t know the power mod situation is that bad. I already started avoiding r/gamingcirclejerk when I saw them banning users for correcting easily disproven misinformation about the “bad people” they meme about.
The internet is getting weird. It used to be that I only had to worry about alt-right trolls. Now I have to look out for authoritarian fake leftists infiltrating and taking over my spaces. I don’t even care about leftism. I just don’t want to participate in spaces where I could get banned for arguing that communism doesn’t work.
It’s reddit, you get what you get. That’s why the majority of us stopped using it.
That therightcantmeme subreddit is absolutely full of tankies and has been for quite some time.
I still remember when they took it over. That was a weird week. Out of the blue a ton of “Stalin did nothing wrong” posts sprung up. Made it clear it was time to leave that sub after vocally calling out their bullshit.
Yeah, same. The subreddit just suddenly kicked a lot of normal mods and installed tankie mods. Used to be a fun place to dunk on regressives. Now it is run by regressive authoritarianism lovers.
And ironically enough their Stalin memes were complete shit
Should be regressivescantmeme and then they’d just be producing appropriate content for it.
Tankies gonna tank.
A reddit mod being a piece of shit? Say it isn’t so! How could this happen?
“I’m a communist, I can’t be a far right conservative!” - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
It’s weird because I also commented in that thread and my comments were arguably more confrontational. But I didn’t get banned for whatever reason.
They did say I would be banned in any socialist space for truthfully talking about the history of Leninism but they didn’t actually do it.
The tankie takeover of online left spaces is a problem but I’m not sure what to do about it. I guess try to politely point out that it’s not just a harmless difference of opinion whenever it comes up in more neutral spaces. Their preferred system means the murder of dissidents. That’s not what left politics should be about. And maybe try to create more open and non-violent left spaces where the truth can be discussed.
not sure what to do about it
Defederation from Hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml would be a decent start, but since they have support from the Kremlin/CCP it’ll probably turn into ongoing whack-a-mole.
What do you mean by support? Like ideological support or more direct support?
Things like the internet research agency (russian keyboard army propaganda organisation ) and chinese equivalents are far more widespread than most imagine
Is there evidence they’re on Lemmy? I find this hard to believe given the anonymity of the platform.
Impossible to prove or disprove, but grad ML and Hexbear follow the exact leftist ideologies these agencies try to push.
They also push extreme right ideologies too, anything that destabilises and improves relationship with russia china is good for them.
If you were trying to influence foreign affairs (like elections) you’d likely LOVE the anonymity.
You can say you’re voting for Harris even if you’ve never left the walled city.
I meant the anonymity of the platform itself, not its users. In other words, most people just don’t know the platform exists, likely including people running bot farms and similar. I’d like to see evidence that this activity is taking place in Lemmy before jumping to conclusions.
Actually Lemmy is probably less anonymous for users than other platforms because you have a bunch of unrelated admins all separately monitoring unusual activity.
More direct support. I think a large portion of the accounts on those three instances are bot/shill accounts run by the CCP and Kremlin. I suspect the CCP runs lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Not sure about Hexbear.
To be clear, I generally don’t have a problem with Marxists or communists. I think that’s a facade used to cover up the propaganda. No intelligent communist or Marxist would support either the Kremlin or CCP at this point.
The fediverse is a fantastic place for propagandists. There’s no central censor, absolutely no budget for countering propaganda.
No intelligent communist or Marxist would support either the Kremlin or CCP at this point.
Yeah. MLs are neither. It’s not necessarily bots, they’re just that stupid.
Agreed there are real people. Apparently the term is “useful idiots,” kind of sad
I’ve seen those comments too, thank you for posting here
Careful if you have any Reddit alts. This particular moderator has the ban evasion filter set to the highest sensitivity on all of his subreddits (it’s a Reddit feature that flags suspected alts of banned users based on account details and device fingerprinting) and will report every case of suspected ban evasion to the admins. They normally don’t care but will look into it if a mod reports it. If you accidentally post on any of his subreddits with an alt the admins will permanently ban all of your accounts.
Thanks for the warning but he doesn’t mod the subreddit this discussion was in. I replied with an alt because he blocked me so I couldn’t see his messages anymore.
That’s because only yes bots are allowed on reddit now! No seriously, insane amount of generated and copied content.
So he’s just against signing up for .world or …? Because my instance is federated with Hexbear (though even we can’t stand grad).
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I commented:
Fuck right off.
Which was removed for violating rule 3. What is rule 3? “Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.”
I fail to see the connection.
The mods are telling you to seek mental help and for once I agree with them lmfao
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