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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).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But it is still very weird to me that there’s a visible “mod viewpoint” and “community participant viewpoint” and that they are different from each other.

It might be specific to political communities? I haven't seen this in other communities, be it as a mod or a standard user

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it totally is. That's what I mean. You don't see like an animal pictures community where the mods are like "NO MORE FOXES that is the rule" and the users get all confused like "but... bro half the pictures are porcupines, can we do something about that, no one thinks it's too many foxes and anyway we like fox pictures" and the mods say "like all of you I am concerned and fearful to think sometimes that I might be in a community with too many porcupines, but I can assure you that it's not true" or anything like that.

My analogy is very bad but hopefully the point comes across

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It does, no worries ha ha