The whole point of the fediverse is that it's distributed. There's gonna be bigots. But they can be blocked, their instances can ban them, and then they can make their own instances which other instances can then defederate. That's working as designed. In a perfect world, the bigoted instances will be a disconnected graph from the network of other instances.

There's a collection here,

!shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

As a POC I'd say Lemmy is way better than most similar sites but there's still the prevalent sexism that always seems like the "acceptable casual bigotry" and I'm not a fan of that. The kind of "jokes" that guys mostly laugh at while women mostly roll their eyes at because the punchline is usually heavily reliant on sexism.

There used to be Wolfballs, a right-wing Lemmy instance. I didn't browse much but there was definitely ample racism there.

Try checking out the comment section on pretty much any post mentoning Islam.

I did not see any racist comments for quite some time. But xenophobic comments were common on threads about Ukraine’s invasion.

The anti-French sentiment is also present here like in the whole English speaking web.

The French aren’t known for their hygiene so I am not surprised their river is filthy

From a post about an olympic triathlete who got sick: https://lemmy.ml/post/18887659

In Belgium: Tartare or Mayo. Andalouse for the gal, thanks In the UK: Salt and Vinegar In both cases: I will have to change seat if you plop yourself in front of me with your poor fries inundated by ketchup. Only the French do that, and it is a Casus Belli in my book.

From a post about dipping fries: https://lemmy.ml/post/18963222

I don't have links because they get banned pretty quickly, but over the last week I've seen maybe 4 or 5 examples of lemmy users referencing "the race card" (derogatory) in response to others talking about systemic racist violence.

Never seen racism on Lemmy tbh most ppl are normal here. Its almost as if its against .ml tos... And they would defed from instances that don't have the same mindset.

I am sure there are instances I have forgotten, there is definitely a certain amount of bigotry, it's not hard to find classism, sexism, and ableism as usual for the internet and I am sure I have come across racism too but I don't remember any specifics.

Maybe it's just the handful of instances I follow, but I can't recall anything. But I've become quite callused and thick skinned having Benn on the Internet sense the early 90's and the wastelands of forums/chat rooms lol. Send help.

.world users every time they see a palestinian

It's a whole lot of smug whites more than happy to talk over subjects-of-empire like this is still Reddit out here, split out between the likes of lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee, jlai.lu, and feddit.de-- the last two are because they're French and Germans respectively, though; no one's expecting anything out of them but resource extraction (in the French case) and for them to go to bat for genocidal states lately (in the German case).

At least the aggrieved ashen lords don't make a habit of coming to specifically demarcated Black-and-Indigenous spaces on the fediverse as much as they used to, ig.

I'm not black so I am sure I am not sensitive enough to it, but I don't think I've ever seen any racism on here. On a slightly related note have experienced transphobia only two or three times in over a year, and they were quickly banned. I imagine it works the same way.