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I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by soviettaters to c/showerthoughts

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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Lemmy is more centrist than Reddit

(other than the usual issues) Reddit was hated by the general populace because it was too right wing and it was hated by right-wingers for not being right wing enough

Lemmy is still new and hasn’t gained a large population as of yet, but it’s already still far more representative than Reddit ever was

[+] [email protected] -18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More centrist???

Lemmy is like a boiling pot of full-on tankie authoritarians. Reddit is only slightly less left than that but you still get autobanned from major subs for simply commenting somewhere deemed right-wing.

This reads like you never even visited Reddit.

[–] deus 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This reads like you never visited any instance other than lemmygrad.ml.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They literally can’t shitjustworks blocks lemmygrad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, good point actually. It’s very possible the issue is the instance I’m logged into. I switched around the time lemmy.world was hacked. But .world honestly felt the same as sh.itjust.works. Never fails that I login and the very first thing I see is some communist circlejerk with tons of upvotes.

[–] rigatti 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on .world and I very rarely see anything communism-related. But I mostly browse Subscribed rather than Local or All.

[–] Klear 3 points 1 year ago

I browse all on lemmy.world and in a few days when I scroll to the third page or so there's suddenly a bunch of lemmygrad stuff. But it used to be every day and at the bottom of the first page.

Certainly something to do with the amount of content available in general.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have seen way, way more people crying about tankies than I have seen people advocating for Stalinism.

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