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[–] Apepollo11 72 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Lemmy was released as an open-source fediverse alternative to Reddit.

Just over a year after launch, r/ChapoTrapHouse, moved across after being banned from Reddit. This is likely what you're referring to. It had well over 100,000 active users on Reddit, so represented a sudden sizable influx of users.

I'd wager the biggest influx of people by far, though, occurred when Spez upset a majority of mods and many users by banning third party apps.

People looked for an alternative, and Lemmy was it.

But why are so many people who lean left politically? Because the Venn Diagram for "people who like the idea of a decentralised platform that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires", and "people who would like society that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires" is nearly a circle.

[–] Crackhappy 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what I thought as well. No ads. No one tracking you. No one profiting off your data. Sounds like leftist ideals to me. Freedom from corporate bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well, all the data is available for anyone on the internet to use as they please...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The developers for Lemmy are also leftist; that the original Lemmy was lemmy.ml speaks to their politics.

ChapoTrapHouse likely moved here because it was already leftist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call them leftist, as their views are too pro authoritarian. They more branched off in a different direction that sometimes looks more right than left.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They get angry when you call them tankies.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's also the people who got pushed out by right wing admins/mods. I personally switched after I got banned for saying riot police should quit their jobs en masse following RvW. I still stand by that statement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wasn't it also built by Marxist-Lennists?

[–] marcos 2 points 5 months ago

decentralised platform that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires

Hum... Isn't that part of the "Freedooomm!!!!" dreams that comes bundled with minimum state and individual empowerment? I'm pretty sure it is.

[–] morphballganon 67 points 5 months ago
[–] IchNichtenLichten 32 points 5 months ago (41 children)

No, I hate the term as it’s usually used as a pejorative and is so reductive as to be essentially meaningless. I’m a democratic socialist.

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[–] aaaa 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone. But it's definitely very overrepresented here, including some large communities of extremists that I don't typically see elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Overrepresented may not be correct, the majority of the english speaking world is far to the left of the US. Even the US population is like 60-70% left leaning, it's just that the left has lower voter participation rates.

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy definitely has a super majority of people who are politically left. Lemmy also has a very large amount of extremely politically left people. I am not sure why this is the case.

However, not every Lemmy user is politically left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not sure why this is the case.

Because Lemmy was created by leftists having their communities banned from reddit. It is and always will be a leftist platform, same as whatever garbage Trump made will be a right wing platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

always will be a leftist platform,

I don't think that's the case.

Being decentralized means that anybody could create a right-wing instance, and it may be able to federate with enough other instances that it becomes big. If it gets enough users, it could make Lemmy more right-leaning overall.

It's not inevitable that Lemmy stays left-wing. But a centralized platform like Twitter or "whatever garbage Trump made" can be curated to be right-wing only. Just as lemmy.ml and perhaps some other instances may be curated to be left-wing only.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I am. I think you'll find we're mostly on a leftist spectrum relative to America's Overton Window.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Cosmicomical 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not enough people or not leftist enough?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I disagree with your disagreeing.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are pretty common here yeah, lemmy was built by communists

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is our social platform!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The peoples platform

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

No, not everyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don’t know. I’m mildly left by normal standards, a Nazi by Lemmy standards and a communist by conservative standards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Uh, negative. I am a meat popsicle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People have a wide variety of opinions and interests that are not represented well on a two dimensional left right spectrum.

Lemmy has a fair few people who will fight you over their own perceived interests.

Because Lemmy is so small it's common for the same people to argue over their interests in every community. In the morning I catch up on the all feed in 20ish minutes (I block politics and memes).

Take that together if you say something against any groups zeitgeist or one of their trigger topics it feels like all of Lemmy is dog piling you.

Remember online isn't the same as real life, express yourself and share your earnest ideas and don't care about downvotes. If someone is being unreasonable just ignore/block them.

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[–] snausagesinablanket 2 points 5 months ago

I tried my left hand. Its just not the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes and no? The humans, probably. The accounts created to keep tabs on the leftist humans? Maybe not…?

Just kidding, NO conservative or government groups have EVER silently infiltrated ANY leftist groups, and me suggesting any account here is a propaganda bot or whatever is TOTALLY outrageous!

Post anything you want here, it’ll NEVER get screenshotted & linked back to you or your job in some giant hack in 5 years 🥳🤩😎

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