转发自: https://hexbear.net/post/5827540
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.
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lmao I thought this was one of their older papers but no, july 31st 2025. They’re still grifting at this? Give it a rest 😭 we don’t have enough activity to warrant four of these papers every year
A breif scan looks like they just recycled the one from last year and said it is new with only minor tweeks
Yeah because then all the federated instances that are commenting on this paper have confirmation bias bait. Look at the way the libs are responding on the SDF link or the other instances if you hate yourself
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Are they really writing that many? Now I’m a little worried lol
Cyprus University of Technology on Arxiv
A no-name. no-credit, degree mill tofu university published on an online e-journal
This is also the same “university” that published the -hilariously scientifically unsound- previous “study”.
Liberals are full of shit and easily manipulated.
Im pretty sure this is israeli propaganda, in the conclusion they outta nowhere label us as antisemitic lol
It’s hard to take seriously a paper that uses the word “tankie”
Tbf, their definition is better than the usual one. To them centrist ML = tankie.
i read it and it feels like a college kid homework, probably israeli. Meh there is no thinking in there just some graphs made with data spewed from scripts and a couple of cherry picked comments as a pitiful attempt to conflate antizionism with antisemitism.
Well, at least we know that we live rent free in their heads.
feature anti-Zionist
What’s the issue here?
Aww man, not this crap again. Don’t these guys ever give up?
Ctrl+F ‘decay’
0 results
Ctrl+F ‘anarc’
0 results
Boring.
I did the exact same thing with “space,” “dog,” “student,” and “Chronic” lol. I am glad I seem to not feature at all on there, unless I missed something critical.
Lame, they haven’t quoted me, I’m not a good enough poster
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I mean to be fair, it’s arXiv, not a peer-reviewed journal. Lemmygrad could easily publish a far more scholarly rebuttal clowning on them if anyone wanted to waste their time doing it
I guess you could call that a “paper”.
Toilet paper
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What a load of horseshit (profanity is labeled extremism by the “researchers”).
As someone who by all definitions holds extremist views this is insulting to us extremists.
Let me get my popcorn, this is gonna be good.
The comments are already gold: “Tankies are right wing extremists btw.”
edit: from the report
Our manual inspection on the banners of these subreddits finds that they fit Petterson’s description of contemporary tankies (Petterson 2020), where they declare their support for Actually Existing Socialist (AES) countries, while also identifying themselves as Marxist-Leninists.
<3
Conclusion: Lemmygrad is pretty cool.
trust me it fucking is lmfao
all i can say is that romanians are somehow bad because they use words and now i know why liberals have hated me for my entire formerly status quo life
That last quote is definitely not cool. It’s also from a comment which was removed for actual antisemitism (based on this), which is slightly disingenuous of the paper’s authors
Yeah, I take it out. I was posting this before I went to do some real life stuff and was thinking about it the whole time. The last sentence completely ruins it.
It was wise of them to neglect mentioning /c/jewish_quarter, since that would have complicated their implication that we are antisemitic. It would have been hilarious, though, if they only used it as more evidence for their agenda. Here, I’ll do it for them:
“Jews […] are […] alien […] and murder […] the […] population”
I love how extremism is defined as recognizing legitimacy of other political systems and being against genocide.
Tankies are extremists because they deny this true ChatGPT fact:
If I submitted something of this quality as a term paper at my university I would fail the course. This was incredibly embarrassing to read and wouldn’t make it past one review session with a teaching assistant.
Lemmygrad is a Marxist/Leninist Lemmy instance
lol okay then.
the most insulting part of that paper
This looks like a repost of there work last year https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5223939. It looks like they are trying to get more eyeballs on it agian
Yeah, except this time they claim not to have included federated instances lol
