Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[benji]

"Why were you on r/Destiny?"

That's the real important issue.

Why are "progressives" all such cops man.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I'm disappointed that the ghost of GenZedong on Lemmygrad isn't discussing this.

Sigh there are the real leftists anymore on the internet. 

[benji]

Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml
Balci, Utkucan ; Sirivianos, Michael ; Blackburn, Jeremy

Abstract
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.


Publication:
eprint arXiv:2507.23699
Pub Date: July 2025

edit: Actual paper:
https://arxiv.org/html/2507.23699v1
https://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2024_44.pdf

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Why is so much research so fucking lame man.  

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

it was one of the best subreddits. 

[benji]

I don't know about you but I completely trust this man's concerns about sapphic wlw representation in nintendo games. 

Wait, is he bald?

He went to EVO to support the Saudis smh: https://www.start.gg/tournament/evo-2025/attendee/17789631

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-11#post-146779174

Please don't credit Federman's change to his stroke. I literally died a few times from strokes and my recovery only gave me more appreciation for people and deepened my empathy. Him saying it turned him into the Joker and made him feel free pisses me off so much. Especially since Batman saved me in a coma dream.

When it happened to him, he became a bad guy. When it happened to me, I became an even gooder guy.

[filler]

Like imagine if Jeff or similar pumpkined Patrick Klepek or the dude with the ugly racist kid or an impressionable Black Excellence celebrator or forum moderator had said "I need to check this guys sources" and clicked through. Next thing you know, they're getting radicalized in the Nazi pipeline. Now you've got a bunch of white supremacists like Gene Park on your forum.

 
I don't know about you but I completely trust this man's concerns about sapphic wlw representation in nintendo games. 

his stupid face 

[normalindividual]

The Gentleman from Maine needs to understand only one thing can erase being a former white chud Nazi and that is becoming a proud internet trans lesbian.

Bonus they can then also access Bluesky mutual aid funding.

[D3RANG3D]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I lurked here for years before posting, but found myself no longer wanting to do so pretty shortly after I started. In large part, it was because nearly every thread in the Gaming section was dominated by negativity, one-liners, sniping, and hot takes. Any in depth discussion felt like a waste, especially as it became apparent any attempts at providing insight (often from people in the industry) would just get buried and ignored most of the time. Even as someone who basically only reads, I have to make liberal use of the ignore function on threads and posters because it gets to be too much to wade through. It is an exhausting and depressing environment to post in and it just wasn't worth it for me.

Fair.

Over the last few years of reading I've also seen many voices I used to pay attention to, especially from gender minorities, either dramatically cut back or completely stop posting as well.

Oh fuck off. 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I don't listen to gender minorities if they are class traitors and vote for shitlibs

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/encountered-a-coworker-with-his-pants-and-underwear-down-in-the-public-bathroom.1333612/

So, onto the offending moment. I went to the public men's staff restroom to attend to some business, and he was literally at the publicly available sink with his pants and underwear all the way down to his ankles. He ran to one of the two available stalls when he saw me walk in. I definitely saw his exposed ass.

You already said his pants and underwear were all the way down to his ankles. Obviously you saw his ass.

Well done on letting us you you were thinking about that booty, though...

What do you all think he could have been up to in there?

He was probably just recharging his JO crystal.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I don't know about you but I completely trust this man's concerns about sapphic wlw representation in nintendo games. 

Wait, is he bald?

He went to EVO to support the Saudis smh: https://www.start.gg/tournament/evo-2025/attendee/17789631

Get that Saudi Arabia blood money, Neoxon! 

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-you-can-survive-a-deserted-island-experience-solo-for-2-weeks.1334815/

Dead on the first day.

I'm deader than dead in like 3 days tops.

resetera bros incapable of surviving 24 hours without door dash

[D3RANG3D]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-you-can-survive-a-deserted-island-experience-solo-for-2-weeks.1334815/

Dead on the first day.

I'm deader than dead in like 3 days tops.

resetera bros incapable of surviving 24 hours without door dash

Can BireBros survive without A.I. for five minutes?

[Snoopy]

The good thing about Xbox is you really get a feeling for what it’s like to be a minority trapped by the whims of an uncaring capitalist society. If I was Phil I’d rebrand the Series X to The POC Box.

[Switters]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-you-can-survive-a-deserted-island-experience-solo-for-2-weeks.1334815/

Dead on the first day.

I'm deader than dead in like 3 days tops.

resetera bros incapable of surviving 24 hours without door dash

I love these kind of threads cause it always has some hard ass hot take "prominent" member with 50,00+ posts self reporting how bad they suck at life.

"Dead the first day. I have Cat-Aids, reverse lymphoma, execma, one eye, I will have to bring Jacob (that's what I named my dialysis homie (✿◠‿◠) ) oh and on all levels except for physical I am a door knob."

[Boredfrom]

Why is the media so enamored with coal miners?
There are more employees at JC Penney's (just to use an example) than there are coal miners - and JC Penney's is in far greater danger of being shut down.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/“he-sold-us-lies-for-votes”-coal-miners-in-deep-red-states-turn-on-trump-over-black-lung-crisis.1330924/page-5#post-146835478

[HaughtyFrank]

Why is the media so enamored with coal miners?

- Margaret Thatcher 1984

[Straight Edge]

Why is the media so enamored with coal miners?

- Margaret Thatcher 1984

Maybe they identify as Loretta Lynn

[Boredfrom]

Say some bigot shit, again, Straight Edge.

[Boredfrom]

The only media companies that exist are the gigantic public conglomerates which will soon all be personally owned by single individuals who will purposely lose money to push an agenda that will make them lose more money all while alienating nearly every person in the creative industry who will all just choose to continue making this MAGA slop.

Being fair, people are still willing to entertain Trump’s BS money losing schemes because they fear a very nebulous form of reprisal. Is getting pretty ridiculous.

Not even Ronald Reagan fans can oppose the Naranjado:

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-reagan-foundation-canada-ad-37dde4581eb070e58e39e3882f214901

You guys are so fucked.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steve-bannon-says-there-is-a-plan-for-a-third-trump-term-%E2%80%9Ctrump-is-gonna-be-president-in-%E2%80%9928-and-people-just-ought-to-get-accommodated-with-that-%E2%80%9D.1334026/page-8#post-146842942

America will end up in flames and stupid wreckers like the one above will still blame the dems for it

There is something wrong in America that makes you people lose any literacy and critical thinking.

Oh no, the voters and GOP never have any agency, only the dems have

It is sickening to me as an outside observer who unfortunately got into this mess

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-8#post-146737789

ITT: cryptofascists defending the indefensible, again and again, this website is infested with this kind of fascist nazbols.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-18#post-146834350

But people keep saying the dumbest shit back to me….

Of course, for an unrepentant nazi sympathizer like you, we all are inferior to your intellect and insight

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-19#post-146847697

 User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory attacks towards other members, consistent history of hostility

all the posturing about anti-genocide from the American left is just an excuse for the American right to genocide even more people. And Bernie Sanders is a top example of this.

As a non-US citizen I don't trust anyone of you. I want all of you to suffer to the maximum extent.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-19#post-146848267

You seem like a pleasant human being.

Why be pleasant to (different flavors of) fascist Americans like you?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-praises-trump%E2%80%99s-job-on-securing-border.1334698/page-3#post-146848207

paragraphs of whataboutism and "democrat party"

I know you're a fascist in sheep's clothing. Don't have to be this obvious though

Bonus:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-12#post-146791543

What is selfish about wanting healthcare for everyone, the minimum wage to be a living age, protecting the environment, ensuring the police are accountable for their actions, reducing income inequality, etc.? How are you, or anyone else here, harmed by these things? I cannot imagine being privileged enough to believe that wanting these things is "selfish".

Many people are drawn by left wing *aesthetic* rather than serious thought on policies. They think it's good for them but they haven't really considered that people having certain left wing aesthetic doesn't mean everything they support is actually universal.

Which is why you have politicians like Bernie Sanders who has been anti-immigration and is, just yesterday, praising Trump's border policies (I have a Xitter video link; if I have link from other sites I'll post it here), and then people will rush to defend US nativist leftists like him.

Which is why you have the consumer left, mistaking non-essential items like doordashing burritos as basic rights.

"Socialism but not for you" is not socialism.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-calls-him-an-%E2%80%9Cexcellent-candidate-and-the-next-senator-of-maine%E2%80%9D.1330780/page-15#post-146819854

 User Banned (1 Month): Downplaying Nazi iconography across multiple posts

That's a Nazi. You are describing a Nazi.

I dont think indifference to iconography is the same as believing in the ideology.

I think it shows poor judgement and ignorance, but i dont see how they are the same.

[Straight Edge]

Say some bigot shit, again, Straight Edge.

Throw all the white people into the sea.

[Boredfrom]

But with the mean edge as your Scarlet Witch Gipsy joke.

[Straight Edge]

But with the mean edge as your Scarlet Witch Gipsy joke.

What's a white Scarlet Witch gonna do in the MCU? Not season her food and dance terribly?

At least I used Romani and not the racist G word like you just did.

[Lonewulfeus]

White scarlet witch would vote for trump, prove me wrong

[filler]

got banned on aellacord without breaking any rules and winning the poll by a landslide