“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely...”

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Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn't provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don't specify.

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[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We'll have to push back with pointing to the decentralized nature of the fediverse, and that there's gonna be crazies on some instances. I always use email as an analogy when explaining Lemmy, maybe we could continue that and argue you wouldn't blame all of email infrastructure if an extremist had a gmail or Hotmail or whatever.

Actually now that I read that, it just might be more confusing. But there's gotta be a counter angle to argue to get ahead of people thinking "Lemmy=bad"

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also even if the cops shut down world, people will just … move. Like yours and my instances don't even have the word "lemmy" in the domain. I don't think anyone would care beyond "we shut down that radical forum."

Though most likely is it goes completely unnoticed and some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It would not bode well for the future of discourse if lemmy.world of all places gets shut down for radicalism. Our instance is significantly more radical than lemmy.world. Can you imagine some ecofascist idiot who posted on slrpnk.net a couple times committing a terror attack and getting the instance taken down? I can, which is why this news should be very concerning.

Edit: Just looked through some of the bomber's comments and their replies and some users even pointed out that his rhetoric was reminiscent of ecofascism. Anti-natalism and ecofascism are ideological siblings. The backlash to this attack is going to catch environmentalist groups in the crossfire, with many environmental activists being accused of having anti-natalist views. Anyone who's ever advocated for degrowth might get lumped in with them.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

Next week? Try last night in DC. I'm doubting this will even register tbh

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's funny because even of the people I know, it's actually like "lemmy=what?" Even of the people I've talked to about it.

They're so painfully disinterested, they usually tune out after the first five words of my fediverse elevator pitch.