u/LeninMeowMeow moderates a large amount of big subreddits, r/therightcantmeme, r/gamingcirclejerk, r/animememes, r/greenandpleasent (a known russian propaganda subreddit source: Center for European Policy Analysis (think Lemmygrad)) and much more.
Anyways on r/lemmy, he says that lemmy.world is right-wing and thatcherite. I reply that it is more social democratic.
I instantly get banned from the subreddits he moderates and blocked by him. I have not commented or participated in any of their subreddits before, and this is my first ever encounter with them.
Weird and concerning behaviour. I fear that tankies are taking over most left wing spaces on reddit (not that I really use reddit for politics anymore, that’s why I’m on lemmy, but for the implications to our democracies, as a non-negligible chunk of voters are politically influenced by reddit).
I still remember when they took it over. That was a weird week. Out of the blue a ton of “Stalin did nothing wrong” posts sprung up. Made it clear it was time to leave that sub after vocally calling out their bullshit.
Yeah, same. The subreddit just suddenly kicked a lot of normal mods and installed tankie mods. Used to be a fun place to dunk on regressives. Now it is run by regressive authoritarianism lovers.
And ironically enough their Stalin memes were complete shit
Should be regressivescantmeme and then they’d just be producing appropriate content for it.