There was one called Homophobia that got like 50 members after being created like 10 minutes before. And of all things, a community about homophobia. With a drawing of a Confederate beating up gay people.

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    I’d say bots but I’ve been told bots aren’t that widespread on Lemmy. Could be wrong though, I don’t know

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      That feels like the only explanation, especially for a community such as Homophobia when I’ve hardly ever encountered homophobic people. They were either trolls or banned almost immediately

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        It’s not necessarily pro homophobia. If it is, people might join in order to report hateful content when it appears.

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          Adding on to that, some communities with bigoted concepts in their name will be intentionally hijacked by anti-bigots to eliminate that community as an easy platform for bigots