Is everyone here leftist?
Submitted 9 months ago by Lhamat@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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morphballganon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
That’s a leftist. You’re a leftist, buddy.
I relate a bit, though. I think it’s cringe when socialists call each other “comrade”.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is a communist the same as a progressive? A democratic socialist the same as an anarchist? Call me what you want but like I said, it’s reductive and meaningless.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Eh, it adds variety. I’d grow rather bored of addressing everyone as “friend”, “buddy”, etc.
aaaa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not everyone. But it’s definitely very overrepresented here, including some large communities of extremists that I don’t typically see elsewhere.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Overrepresented may not be correct, the majority of the 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.
vga@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
This used to be true, but I don’t think it is anymore. Or at least my perception is that some parts of the american left are way leftier than the europeans left are.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 months ago
Even the US population is like 60-70% left leaning, it’s just that the left has lower voter participation rates.
Left leaning vs leftist is a much higher bar and I’d wager under 20% of the US (voting) population is leftist. That’s just based on my memory of how few leftist representatives we have in congress… Far from an exact science.
Atin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Left leaning Americans are still on the right compared to most countries.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 months ago
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.
otp@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I am. I think you’ll find we’re mostly on a leftist spectrum relative to America’s Overton Window.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Most, but not enough.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not enough people or not leftist enough?
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Both
krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I disagree.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I disagree with your disagreeing.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
They are pretty common here yeah, lemmy was built by communists
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
This is our social platform!
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
I don’t know. I’m mildly lefo by normal standards, a Nazi by Lemmy standards and a communist by conservative standards.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Maybe not stupid
best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
No.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
No, not everyone.
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
Uh, negative. I am a meat popsicle.
deafboy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nope, but the dangerous ideologies are the norm here. It was quite shocking after switching from reddit.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Dangerous for who?
vga@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 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 🥳🤩😎
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 9 months ago
I identify as an attack helicopter.
otp@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I don’t think that’s anywhere on the political spectrum
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is a weird claim, I’m curious to know what was the original message that you replied to
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I tried my left hand. Its just not the same.
Nemo@midwest.social 9 months ago
I am not.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 9 months ago
Not Me
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Well, all the data is available for anyone on the internet to use as they please…
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
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.
Audacious@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I left after I got banned for saying riot police should quit their jobs en masse following RvW
So don’t forget people being pushed out by right wing admins
otp@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Wasn’t it also built by Marxist-Lennists?
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hum… Isn’t that part of the “Freedooomm!!!” dreams that comes bundled with minimum state and individual empowerment? I’m pretty sure it is.