I recently noticed this lemmy instance in my all feed. They have an odd premise in their instance sidebar:
We are a down to earth instance who doesn’t get our feelings hurt or offended easily.
And then, on their front page today, there are some links to breitbart and some to russia today. When calling them out on that, I got this comment from their instance:
about as believable as calling trump nazi, you really sound fascistic imo
Is this some kind of right-wing instance? Should we defederate from it?
In my experience, folks who advertise about not getting their feelings hurt or offended easily are dogwhistling. They know they can’t call folks something like, “triggered libtards” without everyone going, “oh, its those people”
If they’re linking to RT and Breitbart they 100% know what they’re doing.
Which is hilarious given the lemmygrad Breitbart defense thread from the other day