Brutkey

The Nexus of Privacy
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Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml

(I personally wouldn't describe them as "left-wing" but that's the terminology the authors chose)

https://arxiv.org/html/2507.23699v1

A couple of the takeaways -- neither of which should be a surprise to anybody who's spent time on lemmygrad:


Our analysis shows that Lemmygrad.ml’s top two communities, c/genzedong and c/genzhouarchive, are associated with tankie subreddits, r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou. Furthermore, our findings suggest that tankies’ platform migration resulted in an increase in user activity and toxicity on Lemmygrad.ml


Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad.ml

#fediverse #lemmy

Eowyn
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@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange tankie is an academic term ?

Risotto Bias
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"Petterson, C. 2020. Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies. Brill research perspectives in biblical interpretation, 4(1): 1–80."

either they mean the 2010's meaning, or the 1980's meaning for tankie (both defending the USSR's actions).

The Nexus of Privacy
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I think it's all generally seen as deriving from original 50s/60s terminology, defending the USSRs actions crushing the Hungarian revolution and then Prague Spring. But yes, the article cites the reference that Risotto Bias quoted while noting that these subreddits "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."

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