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Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml (arxiv.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by LemmySlopSkimmer@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

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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.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40188039

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Among the "hate speech and extremist content" they cite, this is the only genuinely objectionable comment I could find:

"1. Jews arent a nation 2. Isael is a fake country. 3. The only thing which could be more fake than Isael and the “jewish” national identity would be for the fans of start trek in to create a language of their own similar to english, then enter the bourgeoisie and amass wealth and power, and then invade some imperialized nation 200 years later, settle in it and claim their own stark-treakish fake nation state. And they will justifyng this by quoting some science fiction book written in the 1900s which tells how are they the chosen people to colonize this new land. Everyone identifing as a jew is a zionist and an enemy of the communist and anti imperialist movement.”

Where did this come from? I'd bet ten bucks this user has been banned (if they were ever on the site at all) [Edit: Yes]. I couldn't find the comment using the search function.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 51 points 4 days ago (2 children)

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Yep. Banned.

https://lemmygrad.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=2803

The comment had 5 downvotes and no upvotes (other than the default 1).

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/18989

These "researchers" are grasping at straws. Someone should email the journal.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's unavoidable on sites with open registrations. Everyone knows that.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Them being routinely banned is indicative of the site cultural. That culture being: against antisemitism.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 42 points 4 days ago

It was probably the researchers' comment so they could actually have something to include in their paper.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

In one of the other threads someone pointed out that this comment was deleted by moderators five whole years ago