• holygon
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    3311 months ago

    As one of the people who just got here, I do kind of like that lemmygrad seems kind of closed off from the rest. Because lots of “leftist” places back on Reddit would eventually be taken over by SocDems or Libs once they got big enough, so just having a place where they just wont go seems nice. Dunno if brigading by libs is a thing that happens often here though? Haven’t been here long enough to know.

    • @GarbageShootAlt
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      2711 months ago

      There’s a very conscious effort from the radlib cliques to close off lemmygrad

      • @PunsNRoses
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        1311 months ago

        Yeah, I hear talk of a lot of instances wanting to block any instance that federates with lemmygrad.

        • @Raphael@lemmy.ml
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          711 months ago

          I’ve read that too, but they can’t possibly ban lemmy.ml

          lemmy.world hasn’t banned lemmygrad either but I wouldn’t place my hopes on that. Still, it’ll impossible to stop federating with them, you’d just be cutting off large numbers of people over some comments you can’t even see anyway.

      • Yang Wen-li
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        1211 months ago

        Would lemmy.ml ever cut federation with lemmygrad? I feel like your average reddit refugee just joins lemmy.ml and calls it good. Plus the devs seem against segregating lemmygrad.

      • @LarkinDePark
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        811 months ago

        I don’t see this as being a bad thing. No sure could survive the massive influx of liberals that other sites are. Let these waves swamp over and when it dies down we’ll still have a culture here.

    • @Lemmy_Mouse
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      1811 months ago

      Oh they’re here. They’re to us in our spaces as MAGA is to mainstream neoliberal spaces - they invade to sabotage, they seek to destroy. We could move to Mars and they’d send space drones with propaganda blasting from speakers.

    • @CannotSleep420
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      1511 months ago

      Back when the ledditor tsunami began, there was one person who wandered into a thread on lemmygrad, started complaining about lemmygrad, then started flinging shit at everyone who responded to them. It was kind of amusing to watch tbh.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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        1511 months ago

        Remember that anarchist who got banned because friendly starting the “discussion” from asking “why do you love mass murder”? I talked with him some more on lemmy and of course he doubled down, finally throwing the wiki list of “communist mass murders” which reach like over 150% of Black Book numbers with comment that it was good source.

        While constantly asking me why we don’t like anarchists, lol.

    • @Andytimbo
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      1111 months ago

      I’d assume the verification system helps with that a little bit

    • @100beep
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      1111 months ago

      GreenAndPleasant managed this by creating a breakaway sub, GreenAndExtreme - the idea being that it was a pipeline, get the libs interested in Pleasant and radicalized in Extreme. Didn’t really work, then they managed a proper crackdown on libs in the main sub.

    • @sotimely
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      1011 months ago

      It is kind of nice to not encounter so much froth.