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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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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

By excluding hexbear, the most posting of the tankies, what could their data even say? Along with all the other things people have said here.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

Sorry but they're only looking for left wing extremists, Hexbear are apparently right wingers

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