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You are right about worsening economic conditions leading to the rise of far right movements. I was more speaking to their digital footprint. If you remember early Facebook, it was nothing like what people use today.
If lemmy A is federated w lemmy B (the nazi one), it means:
It does not mean:
So this flooding the feeds scenario, I just don't see it. In user-moderated platforms, vocal minorities don't show up anywhere, they get moderated out basically automatically except in their own little enclaves. There is no scenario in which Lemmy as a federation provides a good platform for them (outside of their own nazi-friendly instance), because Lemmy doesn't work like other social media works.
I will take this to mean communists make up a soft majority on lemmy given the number of complaints about commie posting keep popping up on the major comms