No offense but are r/europe users really the type of people we'd want to attract here? They have a huge far-right problem.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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We can scare them off if they come here.
How so?
I used to partake in r/europe 3-4 years ago, I didn't see a large amount of european far-right polemics.
I haven't used reddit much in years, but i remember racism there being a huge problem. I checked again and it seems a lot of the far right shitheads splintered to another sub, which unironically believes in the great replacement. (/r/europe_sub if you want to see how bad it is) so I guess that curbed down the number of Nazis there.
I don't know how r/europe is nowadays but i probably should've checked, sorry :p
There is a lot of islamaphobia and support for israel there, but its subtle.
Not sure what it was like before, but it's pretty Left now.
I went to r/europe and filtered by Top posts of the last month, they are:
- Orbán banned Budapest pride. People of Budapest:F*ck you, I won't do what you tell me.
- The U.S. To Lose $29 Billion in Tourism This Year As Europeans Say ‘No Thanks’
- Paris (reduces) pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars
- Images and writings against Bezos were projected ... Fuck Oligarchy
- Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow
- On this day, two years ago, the Wagner Group launched a rebellion against the Russian government.
- 140000 people estimated to have gathered at the anti-government protest last evening in Belgrade
- Live from Belgrade under barricades! Dozens of barricades are being erected in Belgrade, Serbia, as the regime has begun arresting and kidnapping students in broad daylight.
- Trump to send thousands of immigrants including Europeans to Guantanamo: reports
- Sweden bans AR-15 as hunting rifle after school shooting – all rifles to be turned in and sent to Ukraine
Well it's a step up over before at least, thanks.
All good, I was genuinely curious. I just don't remember anything particularly racist 2-3 years ago, it was pretty regular posts, some politics of course, but if anything it was more anti-right.
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Thanks for the link! I heard the devs of Lemmy, on the other hand, censor comments opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So I'm much more interested in trying Piefed.
It's so true though!
But that implies that that is the case for Lemmy as a whole, which is not true.
The comment never said that. It stated that the Lemmy devs support russian genocidal imperialism, which is true.
Don't get me wrong, I recognize that using Lemmy is not the same thing as supporting tankie roaches, but my point stands.
I know it doesn't but the original commenter that you were quoting obviously doesn't understand how Lemmy works and is equating the action of the devs and their moderation to the whole of Lemmy, that's why I used the word implies.
I'm not saying your point is wrong more pointing out that it is a bad thing that the lack of knowledge on how Lemmy works and operates between instances means that people who don't know presume that it applies for the entirety of Lemmy.
That's true (I am here after all), my point was that the Lemmy devs' tankie position is a liability for the growth of federated networks.
Not everyone is going to be spending time to understand the details and nuances.
For sure, apologies if you thought that was aimed at you :)
No worries ) Didn't think anything was aimed at me so to speak.
Cheers!
Wait wait two people on the Internet having a misunderstanding and then talking it out and ending on a positive note??? Never thought that was possible
Wholesome <3 I love this place
my point the Lemmy devs' tankie position is a liability for the growth of federated networks.
The responses to fundraising for Lemmy development recently is a perfect example of that
Lemmy under the current devs (especially Dessalines) will never see string growth.
Dessalines is too busy banning people for daring to say that North Korea has a bad government to do any coding.
Have to agree.
That .ml is so closely tied to development (and previously the first landing space) is problematic, there were a bunch of people asking if donations were purely to dev or if they supported the .ml servers at all as well, because they didnt want to provide any financial support to .ml.
And thats even aside from precisely the issue you mention.
I really think its one of the bigger reasons behind all the piefed support.