examining content and user interactions on Lemmygrad.ml from its inception in 2019 to one month after the migration of left-wing extremist (specif i cally, tankie) communities that were banned from Reddit, we aim to explore the extent of left-wing extremism on the Decentralized Web.

Using tankie in an academic paper lol.

We also identify posts that support authoritarian regimes, endorse the Russian in-vasion of Ukraine, and feature anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic content.

Did NATO, or Israel commission this? Anti-zionism isn’t anti-semitism, and Israel is committing genocide.

Our manual inspection on the banners of these sub-reddits f i nds that they f i t Peterson’s description of contempo-rary tankies (Petterson 2020),

Are they letting 14 year old edgelords write papers now?

We f i nd that in 2019, the year Lemmygrad.ml was founded, there was a notable peak in the frequency of high scores across TOXICITY, SEVERE TOXICITY, INSULT, IDENTITY ATTACK, THREAT, and PROFANITY models.

Very interesting, profanity, insults, and toxicity against whom exactly?

While many posts condemn an-tisemitism, we also encounter numerous posts that extend beyond criticizing Israel, displaying anti-Zionism and even antisemitism. … Takeaways. Our results show that users of Lemmygrad.ml frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent ac-tions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism (Zannettou et al. 2020). Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and ex-tremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad.ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic commu-nity.

Israel-funded paper confirmed.