Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):
“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely…”
Here is an archive of the article.
Here is his account.
It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn’t provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don’t specify.
Damn Axis.world made a domestic terrorist before Us
I guess we cant call ourselfs the most dangerous instance anymore
Yeah but see Hexbear is actually the violent extremist instance not the Rational Centrist instance of lemmy dot world. Or something I dunno I have a brain
It’s the same thing that happened on Reddit when a childfree subscriber killed his kid
I love how quickly lemmy.world speed ran the aesthetically lib to fash redditor pipeline problem without even a profit motive behind them.
I mean lemmy.world aims to be Reddit 2, and reddit had jailbait, fatpeoplehate, the_donald, keeps Gamergate subreddits open, r/conspiracy, and so many more horrid things kept up because it made more clicks.
So why wouldn’t lemmy.world keep an active terrorist on board? Think of the potential money to be made.
Maximizing the MAU and pLTV of a niche internet forum for the love of the game.
Hmmm, how did they find out?
You mean the reporters? I wondered about that, but then realized that the guy tended to use the same online nickname on various sites. Searching the web for that nickname probably turned up a bunch of his accounts and then they could read the comments to determine if they were likely the same person. Pretty good reporting, I thought.
Ah, good reason to always make new usernames for each site/service that is signed up for. 😉
Yes, definitely a good privacy and security practice. Different passwords is important too. Different email addresses as well, if possible. There are services like simplelogin and anonaddy that make the email part simple.
Yes, the email I use has that built in, though if I can I don’t use email for an account, like on Lemmy (which is how it should be everywhere in my opinion, just a username and password). All my passwords are different too!
Of course it’s fash nonsense, too.
Seems like nihilistic anti-natalism?
Shit like this comment give major ecofash vibes.
The comment they were responding to there was literally calling them on it
Yep, it’s Malthusian nonsense.
“You need serious psychiatric help as soon possible.”
Damn gmtom had this guy’s number
Lmao, true though.
To be fair, you could reply that to any comment and probably be right
Who gets to have kids?
Definitely not poor people.
The surest proof that liberalism inexorably leads to fascism and eugenics is that liberals keep independently recreating them.
It’s like the continuous replication of the crab form, only extremely evil.
Aka malthusian, which is ecofascism.
it’s only fashion nonsense because the media will only ever cover fashion
when it’s anti-fashion the media never covers it. Remember when FORmica xavier eliminated the [[[[synonym for lint]]]] of the number of appendages on your hand? Media barely even covered it. Nobody remembers the incident even though literally cinco de mayo chicharrones ay ay ay
This reads like genAI gibberish but I fear that I’m just old and not hip with the slang kids are using. I hate the future
reads like genAI gibberish
it’s not, just think about it
I’m not getting the Cinco de Mayo thing mostly
Cinco de Mayo is probably “5 mayos”.
Synonym for lint is fuzz.
It’s a reference to Micah Xavier Johnson, who killed 5 cops.
Zoomer Riddler over here.
I see, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for deciphering it
Ask your AI to summarize it for you. This is how we live now.
We’re hittin the big time boys!
Woop! We made mass violence perp level!
We did it Reddit!
A fascist on lemmy.world???
Malthusians, you want to stop new births and yet you don’t target Elon Musk, who coincidentally is also a billionaire? Smh.
Yeah what the hell. We know why but the lack of targeting Edgelord Khan is wild. It really says alot lol.
Lmao another victory for hexbear.
We lost “First Lemmy Instance to produce a Domestic Terrorist” tho
This is inaccurate.
I still maintain that UlyssesT killed the UnitedHealth CEO as he, once again, mysteriously disappeared right before the killing and Luigi is a fall guy. He’s also widely attributed to have killed Henry Kissinger. Difference is he got away. Hexbear reigns supreme.
But then we have to argue the semantics if an assasination is a terrorist attack
Good point.
Just look at the results. I’d describe the bourgeois reaction as ‘terrified’.
There’s still “First Lemmy Instance to produce a based domestic terrorist”.
get to it hexbear. i trust you are gonna choose your targets much better.
PSL member just killed 2 Israeli embassy staffers in DC… so maybe??
Yeah, but I think I saw some trivia about the attack that made it seem like it was a personal thing due to relationship issues.
I mean if we count doing agitprop in foreign countries where it’s illegal to be a Red, we might take first for international t-rist…
International terror is where it’s at these days
lmao, of course
CIA plot confirmed
The implication here is that somehow that’s a problem with lemmy and lemmy.world…but I bet he also had an amazon account and no one is blaming them.
I didn’t read it as any particular implication, but that they just found the money quotes they wanted on lemmy.world.
Small niche where the user is active, big international service that everyone uses that has zero connections to them.
Gee I wonder why people are talking about lemmy.world
“Active” being a dozen posts from two years ago.
Though right now we’re probably inflating our own importance by thinking anyone at all will associate Lemmy with this guy in any meaningful way. The name was referenced by the reporter because they needed to say where the random posts came from, and talked about like it’s just a general social network rather than an organizing place for a radical ideology.
I heard the bomber was chosen as Time person of the year in 2006
Of course he was a .worlder lmao. That instance is really never beating the allegations.
Truly the cesspit of Lemmy
I signed up for it when leaving reddit just because it was the biggest, what’s wrong with .world?
.world is ideologically liberal on average, so a lot of people on the fediverse take issue with that as Leftists tend to be more prominent by ratio than on Reddit. It’s also the largest instance, and gets hate for that, as a lot of people like the decentralized aspects of the fediverse.
Not much, its just has most lemmy users/communities so its a big point of failure.
…That it’s no better than reddit and doesn’t ban right wingers? Like that IndictEvolution account is still up lmfao
My echo chamber noooo
Liberalism is the dominant ideology in western society, banning the Marxists but keeping the liberals is more of an echo-chamber than a Marxist instance banning liberals could hope to be. Liberals never have to engage with Marxism if they don’t want to, Marxists must engage with Liberalism on a daily basis.
So is the !antinatalism@lemmy.world community he was a mod of
So what? I don’t think we need to worry about his future posts.
Spouting blatantly ecofascist rhetoric should have had him banned and his comments removed. Instead the community he modded is still up and still posting ecofascist shit with zero pushback from admins.
People fighting over instances is fucking stupid.
Not really tho. Some instances talk a big game about their cOnCeRnS when defederating from the explicitly leftist instances but then let fascists of every ilk say the wildest shit as long as it’s directed to whomever is the villain of the month for libs.
I’d agree except it’s the biggest one, so fair game imo.
It’s like Hamiltonians taking swipes at Toronto.
卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄
Holy shit the jokes just write themselves. It’ll be amazing if .world doesn’t try to censor this.
Man I am just glad I never made an account there.
Where should I go?? I thought .ml was bad
If you want my personal opinion, it depends on how you want lemmy.
.ml is held by Marxist-Leninists. Most users there aren’t, but if you care about that, its either for you or aren’t for you.
.world is held by centrist liberals. Most users don’t care about that, but if it matters to you, there ya go.
My instance is for anarchists. There’s ones for queer people. Or people who speak German. Or Italian. Or French. Some are made for being NSFW, some are made to shitpost, some are isolated by choice or massively de-federated.
But most instances don’t care who you are or why you’re on it, just don’t break the rules.
So far lemmy.cafe lemmy.zip sopuli.xyz all seem fine, I don’t recall a constant issue with the userbase.
Well, that depends on what you want. Lemmy.world leans right and harbours transphobes and racists, hence the nazi.world jokes. Personally I think such users should just be allowed to make fools of themselves, but if you find that disturbing you can join another instance. lemmy.ml leans left, lemm.ee is fairly centrist, and sh.itjust.works is mildly right. But all are great instances.
Lemmy.ml is seen as “bad” on Lemmy.world because the average opinion of Marxism-Leninism on Lemmy.world is negative, but that’s not the case everywhere. If you aren’t hostile to MLs, Lemmy.ml is fine.
It really depends in what you want in an instance, though. My favorite instances are the niche ones that stick to a common subject or theme, mander.xyz is a good example of a science-focused instance, or Hexbear.net which is focused on Left-Unity and anti-Capitalism.
Lemmy.ml is seen as “bad” on Lemmy
.worldeverywhere else becausethe average opinion of Marxism-Leninism on Lemmy.world is negativeof how tankies behave, butthat’s not the case everywherewe like to pretend otherwise. If you aren’t hostile toMLstables or tell the truth about countries were in love with, Lemmy.ml is fine.Ftfy
What a colorful modlog you have, frequently suicide baiting and complaining about Marxists. Always funny to check the modlogs of people most upset about Lemmy.ml.
Lemmy.ml is generally seen as fine, or positively among instances like Hexbear.net and whatnot. Users hostile to Marxists tend to also be hostile to Lemmy.ml, users pro-Marxism tend to be fine with it.
What a colorful modlog you have
Am I supposed to care what the terrible mods on this site think of me? Little weird of you to go crawling around there like it’s relevant but go off
Lemmy.ml is generally seen as fine, or positively among instances like Hexbear.net and whatnot.
I love how you immediately jump to an even worse regarded instance as if that’s going to help your point
Keep pretending y’all aren’t shitty tankies and aren’t hated by most of the rest of the site, you look like a bigger idiot than normal doing it!
I mean, you’ve been banned many times for telling other users to kill themselves, tried to claim calling a user “guy” isn’t misgendering them, and seem to just be generally toxic. It’s nice as a bit of confirmation that those who complain the loudest about Marxists also generally are toxic people. I wouldn’t call the mods removing your suicide baiting comments and transphobic remarks “shitty.”
Hexbear.net is worse regarded among people who hate Marxists, yes. As a Marxist, I don’t really hold the opinions of those hostile to Marxists as particularly important, the driving divide is in people’s position on Marxism. If I went into a MAGA conference, I would expect to be hated as well, but I wouldn’t care much either. Anti-Communism is the biggest division, those supportive of Communism tend to be okay with the Marxist-aligned instances.
Hexbear is an interesting beast. It tends to be really insular because it is defederated by a lot of the bigger instances. But it does have a strong sense of community, and a lot of its own in-jokes. From the outside looking in, it often looks like a dumpster fire. But the reality is that it’s more like old 4chan, where it always looks like a dumpster fire on the surface… Then when you dig deeper and start understanding some of the memes, you realize it’s actually a really interesting community surrounded by a dumpster fire
Hexbear was its own thing for years before federating, that’s why it has a stronger site culture than most other instances. It’s unapologetically Communist, so those who are hostile to that quickly defederated from them once they started federating.
Lots of instances defederated because of the tendency to brigade. Since Hexbear was already a fairly large instance before federating, it meant it tended to dominate a lot of conversations on other instances. People have similar complaints about .world these days too. But fairly early in the first Reddit exodus, there were a few cases of Hexbear brigading smaller instances, and the Hexbear mods/admins clearly didn’t have any interest in stopping it. So not all of the defederation is purely politically based. Politics may have helped swing the decision, but it certainly wasn’t the only reason.
I don’t really think it’s brigading to participate on threads you’re federated with. If comments on threads federated with Hexbear are active, Hexbear users see them, and as Hexbear is a large instance, this appears as brigading, but is just a natural element of participation in federation. Some instances are hostile to Communists, so they didn’t want a bunch of Communists on every thread, so they defed.
Yeah. The “it was just because they hate communism” descriptions of hexbear defederation are just making up a story of oppression to explain why it wasn’t actually their behavior that got them locked out. People don’t hate communism, they hate trolling, tankies (in the literal sense with the Ukraine invasion), and brigading (referencing their fights with the libs and then a bunch of commenters swarming).
I could take or leave the lemmygrad defederation, but hexbear absolutely made its own bed.
Most people are mad at hexbear because their moderation policies are consequentialist not deontological and thus more stringent against stupid online shit. As a poster you don’t have a “right” to post on hexbear, however the community has a right to be protected. As such it’s one of the better places if you don’t want to read reams upon reams of lib coded bigotry.
Lemmy.zip and lemm.ee have been consistently the best so far.
And anyway, the main reason not to use lemmy.world is just that it’s the most popular. The whole point of coming to the fediverse is to decentralize so joining LW kinda beats the purpose.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Just look around and join whichever looks interesting. It’s not a contract, either - you can change your mind whenever you want.
This (slrpnk.net) is my third instance.
Truly the /pol/ of the fediverse
freakin sweet, this totally won’t be used as a pretext to criminalize not using meta/twitter/reddit
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