You wouldn’t believe some of the shit they’re making up about us on the lemmyverse now that we aren’t there to contradict it. According to several posts I’ve seen we’re literal nazis who throw up swastikas for fun and hate trans people. There’s been a telephone game of uncharitable interpretations and now a good percent of users have only heard about us this way and have lumped us in with 4channers such that they think we’re literal nazis.
I’ve tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle “civil” way and gotten banned for “subverting defederation” I guess I’m not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷
On the bright side, it can create a sort of backwards marketing push where people who are morbidly curious come here and then don’t see any of that and are opened up to hearing our side of the story
I hope so, but there are posts on the MeanwhileOnGrad sub that are just entirely not what the content of the screenshot says, and it’s left as an exercise for the reader to stretch it to painful lengths to interpret it uncharitably.
You might just find your own posts on there.
Feel free to let me know if you spot one of my comments there.
The comm is a ghost town run by an obsessive, I’m not worried.
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