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It might not be the best community on Lemmygrad, but I don't have an issue with it thus far.
The mission statement of the community would do better on Lemmy.ml or one of the ones with more general appeal from liberals. But as it stands right now, it's fine.
To me "unfiltered" and "celebrating the diversity of political thought" means "allowing fascism and fascism-adjacent speech." I go on this site precisely because we generally don't allow such nonsense to be posted. Filtering speech is a necessary part of creating a good community.
if someone posts something that qualifies as fascist conjecture, it will be removed. But I have not seen that from them yet.
I think it's a pretty huge red flag though that it's a brand new "transracial woke-free" account that immediately creates this community and starts using it to link fascist rags and nothing else
I think it's a bit strange that an account less than 24 hours old has made over a dozen posts and less than half that amount of comments. I'm not going to jump to the assumption that it's a bot but i do think it's a bit rude. When you are new to a community you should maybe first engage with that community for a while as a commenter, even just passively observe for a bit and get to know that community and how it operates before you start spamming posts.
It looks like they're also doing the same thing with an alt on Hexbear (they posted the same Daily Mail articles to their politics community which looks to be against that community's "don't directly link reactionary sites" rule lol), which I think is another red flag
I don't personally have an issue with someone posting Daily Fail articles, they can be good for a laugh but we should probably keep those sorts of posts to the SRS community.
It might be suspect, but it's important to give people a chance to either make their case or shift to our community's concerns before we damn them.
But I do agree with the "woke-free" part of the concern, that feels like a dog whistle. I will be scrutinizing this account and their communities.
There's no scrutinizing to be done here. I refuse to participate in a community that accepts or enables anyone claiming to be transracial. In my opinion, someone claiming that they're transracial warrants an instant permaban. I have been a member of Lemmygrad for a long time, and I moderate some of its biggest communities. I even run other communities that are affiliated with some of Lemmygrad's communities, but I would've deleted my account if this person hadn't been banned.
to be fair, i'm dyslexic and kept reading it as "Transradical"
had my eyes have actually worked, the ban would've been sooner.
I would also like to point out here, that this explictly states "all parties are welcome — whether it’s Democratic, Republican, or any third party." not only is this HIGHLY US centric, in a community that seems to be trying to be more global, and that has a "US News" community that would fit that anyway. also given that Demorcats and Republicans are Anti-Capitalist parties that violates rule one off the bat
"This is a safe space to share and explore diverse political news and perspectives. Let’s celebrate the true diversity of political thought!" This is put here and this is explicitly saying that everyone across the political spectrum is allowed in the community, however this is not allowed on Lemmygrad, we very explicity ban some political ideologies, as stated in rule number 1, no capitalist apologia or anti-communism and rule 5 no right deviationists.
It is a choice to wait untill it becomes an issue, however I feel that we should be proactive given that the rules of the comunity run directly aganst the rules of this instance.
I would like to bring a few worries that their account gives me just from the bio, First they claim to be transracial, and that tends to be something I see said from people on the right to discreddit trans folks, this is contenued by the use "woke free" agian woke tends to be mostly used by the right wing as a boogy man, and by declaring woke free is a warning to me atleast