I never understood why people thought this would be a good thing. Growth for the sake of growth is meaningless. The best way to grow the community is by attracting sane people who are capable of having adult discussions. Focusing on a number of users is misguided. What really matters is sustainability. The only things that actually matter are having enough users to create content, having sustainable development resources, and enough funds for hosting the community.

Having a bunch of radlibs swarm Lemmy doesn't really add any actual value, and creates no end of problems. Thankfully, we can at least mitigate the damage thanks to federation.

Yup, seen that thread. I reported some users calling Russians "orcs" and i was actually chastised in PM by mod who apparently think it is normal exchange of political opinions.

EDIT: And while the dehumanisation, bigotry, racism, orientalism etc. etc. comments still stands, this happens:

People like those in the comments are why I worry about my students from the PRC who want to study in the imperial core.

It was always going to end with those losers setting up shop. But hey it's great to see that MLs are making great strides in geopolitics for humanity, and all the bootlickers from reddit can do is troll on lemmy.

They genuinely think flooding lemmy is going to help stop the multipolar world. Think about that for a second - how stupid you have to be and how desperate you have to be to resort to that. So framed in this way, we know that they will go the way of history and that progress marches on, ignoring their tears.

Literally saw someone in that Beehaw thread talking about "we're a safe space for minorities" and shit complaining that they'd posted up a picture of Winnie the Pooh somewhere and got banned for it. They're literally just western-chauvinist redditors looking for somewhere to piss all over and call theirs.

I think it's very telling that once they run out of talking points, they resort to throwing a tantrum, swearing at you and demanding to be banned like it's a victory.

I just joined here a couple days before the Reddit thing happened. They're bringing all of what I didn't miss from quitting Reddit years ago. At least on the bright side I can mostly stay out of all that here.

Its a fucking nightmare over there. Left reddit because of this shit sad to see the other instances turning into reddit.

on the contrary, Lemmygrad is a great place to criticize the CPC if you have actual informed criticism, whereas most instances won't allow that since genuine criticism requires acknowledging the many positive aspects of China's leadership