Not speaking to this person or post specifically but this is what can blight all reddit alternatives. The first wave that arrives often includes a disproportionate amount of malcontents. A lot of people who don't play well with others, who are banned from reddit (or at least banned from lots of subreddits) usually turn up first on these reddit alternatives and disrupt the community by repeatedly showing anti-social or disruptive, attention seeking behaviour. It's not even necessarily related to any political persuasion.

The first wave of new users on reddit alternatives are, in my experience, more likely to have a lot of problem users and since the sites are so small, and usually sparsely moderated, they are much more disruptive than they would be on reddit.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, that's true. The first wave is always a mess, with a half dozen idealists sticking to principles and a million malcontents. And since it's the first wave, it gets to dictate the culture of the platform, that might become nasty as a result.

Lemmy didn't completely avoid this problem but I feel like it's a minor issue here (compared to, say, Ruqqus). Mostly due to

timing - Lemmy grew because people were pissed at the APIcalypse, not due to some mass banwave
federation - it's a small barrier of entry, but enough to discourage some troublemakers

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

I feel like the federation is more than a barrier to entry. It's an ability to just remove whole groups if they are like that. Defeding hexbear has minimal negative impact as compared to not being on Lemmy at all. And when people group themselves into ideological echochambers blocking them because much much easier.