Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨occultist8128@infosec.pub⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

as a person that came from the 3rd world country and new in fediverse environment, i genuinely would like to know about this.

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lady_maria@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think a lot of the people on Lemmy came from Reddit when the whole API thing happened. It was pretty much a boycott. I assume most of the people who cared enough about that to leave were mostly left-leaning.

That’s why I’m here, at least.

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- ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Reddit chased away the Trump supporters before the API thing happened. When it did, some people like me who are classic-liberals and libertarian came over too. After all, Lemmy is an inherently libertarian platform even when it’s users aren’t. When I express a political opinion objectionable to leftists, I get several times more down-votes than up-votes but I do get up-votes.
  
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  - Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Lemmy is an inherently libertarian platform
    
    This is an interesting perception, because if you mean American libertarianism then this doesn’t really make sense. Lemmy’s creators are communist and intended it to be anti-corporate. It is designed in a decentralized manner specifically to avoid situations where companies can own and profit from it.
    
    The kinds of platforms I would see as being libertarian (in the American sense) are the diaspora of privately owned social media companies.
    
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  - Not_mikey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If it’s libertarian it’s libertarian socialist. There’s no property or capital on here, posts get boosted by collective voting, not based off your following or account. There’s not even an idea of karma, your account means basically nothing here. A capitalist libertarian social media would be something like nostr or what bluesky is claiming it’ll eventually do where you completely own your account and your following and you can use that social capital as you wish.
    
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  - Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think this is an example of where the left-right axis isn’t the most adequate way of viewing things. The Fediverse in general is anti-authoritarian. You can be all the way from a far-left anarchist to a far-right anarcho-capitalist and still be anti-authoritarian, just like both tankies and nazis are authoritarian.
    
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  - Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Lemmy is an inherently libertarian platform even when its users aren’t
    
    The devs are Communists and created Lemmy along Communist lines and principles. Libertarians can also agree with Lemmy’s structure though.
    
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  - Nemo@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My experience as well. Though I avoid political munis these days.
    
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  - LemurEyes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    As a libertarian liberal, what communities would you recommend? I’m sad there’s not a more active free speech community on this platform. The reddit one is such a gross conservative circle jerk rn.
    
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- FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I left Reddit because of the pro-genocide mods
  
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s only one way you can support Trump today.

You either refuse to acknowledge all the terrible things he’s done, or you approve of the things he’s done.

People who refuse to acknowledge, are going to look at all the “fake news” on this site about His Oranginess, and quickly decide that it’s nothing but propaganda and go somewhere “more reliable”.

Those who agree, stock around a little longer. They will argue and defend the horrible things, because they think there are more like them that will come out and back them up as a fellow defender of --racism-- --misogyny-- --homophobia-- “Good old family values”. But they will be downvoted to oblivion and have trouble finding a friendly voice. Eventually, they too will go where they can have a more comfortable discussion with people who are as terrible as they are.

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- Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  You either refuse to acknowledge all the terrible things he’s done, or you approve of the things he’s done.
  
  This is two ways.
  
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  - Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No! I have been defeated!! I now have no choice but to vote Republican! Damn you, Orbituary! <Fist waves dramatically>
    
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  - Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The brackets were implied by OP.
    
    I.e. “one way: (be ignorant || approve)”.
    
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  - jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Our three weapons are…
    
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- andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We had an opportunity years ago to fix this problem. Long before Trump ever showed up on the scenes as a political individual. We needed in schools to be teaching how to pick out real news from fake news. How to pick out fact from propaganda. Hell out to read a newspaper properly.
  
  How to logically pick a part in argument. We chose not to. We as a society, decided not to put our money towards that. No people read a headline, and based purely on the headline, make a statement such as “throw the guy in jail for the rest of his life for that one “.
  
  I sat on a jury trial. It was a murder trial, if you went purely by what was in the local newspaper, you would’ve seriously questioned why the guy didn’t just take a plea deal. If you sat in that courtroom day after day, listening to it you’d realize this is a lot tougher than what you realize. we had a time figuring out if the guy was even in town at the time of the murder.
  
  But for those that weren’t involved in the trial, they’re convinced the guy belonged in jail for the rest of his life. Because people didn’t sit down and really read the newspaper and ask important questions. Because we don’t hold our journalists to a higher standard and force them to give all the information And tell both sides of the story.
  
  I have no idea how you solve the problem anymore. Because at this point, even if you tell the complete truth about any given politician, no one‘s going to believe what they’re reading anymore because there’s another so-called journalist out there saying the exact option and people say well I don’t know what to believe then. And can’t figure out how to critically think about this and ask questions.
  
  Here in Lemmy we are guilty of the same sort of thing, same as over at truth social same as over at Twitter same as over Facebook.
  
  As a society, I’m sorry for the language here, we are well and truly fucked.
  
  I truly don’t know what the answer is.
  
  Also sidenote 10 bucks says somebody comes back with a stupid comment of well since you don’t know what the answer is obviously you’re just saying that we shouldn’t do anything and just give up.
  
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  - Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you’ve never watched the move 12 Angry Men, do yourself a favor and watch it. You are going to love it and it has everything to do with your comment.
    
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  - jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Neglecting public education is really going to keep biting us in the ass.
    
    Something like half of US adults can’t read at a sixth grade level.
    
    If we took some of the idiotic venture capitalist “it’s cat gifs on the block chain” nonsense and put it into education and infrastructure, we’d be so much better off.
    
    I don’t really know how to get from here to there, either. Give me magic powers to Thanos snap away some people, maybe?
    
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  - Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I have no idea how you solve the problem anymore. Because at this point, even if you tell the complete truth about any given politician, no one‘s going to believe what they’re reading anymore because there’s another so-called journalist out there saying the exact opposite and people say well I don’t know what to believe then. And can’t figure out how to critically think about this and ask questions.
    
    Reverse cargo cult.
    
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  - barooboodoo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    We needed in schools to be teaching how to pick out real news from fake news.
    
    Obviously there are issues with education in this country but it’s always an easy scapegoat for these kinds of issues. Plenty of states have skills like this in their common core, I would venture to say you’re incorrect on that point.
    
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- andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not sure who down voted you. Or even why
  
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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reddit’s early days were also far more left leaning then they eventually became.

When you have a small niche of nerds who enjoyed discussing topics, far right wing points will get downvotes to hell because they are, quite frankly, dumb, divorced from logic and the real world, and don’t stand up to actual critical scrutiny.

Reddit got more right leaning as it grew and expanded into the general population, then got more right leaning when right wing political orgs took notice and started trying to influence it, and now seems even more right leaning because Reddit prioritizes controversial comments and posts that get people angry because it boosts engagement.

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- ghostface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  While very true, dont discount apathy and lurking. I may have made 15-20 comments on reddit for tge 10+ yrs I was on the platform. There were so many ppl 1. That typically someone else would respond. Two reddit descended into ppl who just want to argue semantics. Here without the karma farming people have more genuine responses
  
  Over on mastodon on the other hand… I get the feeling people brought some of the negative aspects of twitter over there. Still overwhelmingly positive but I tend to get more info on lemmy now than mastodon Imo
  
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  - masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t think there’s any less karma farming on here. People still look at their up and downvotes, and I don’t think there was a legitimate industry for selling high karma accounts on Reddit. Not one that would make a difference at scale anyways.
    
    The problem with Mastodon and Twitter is structural, it’s based around following people, not topics. It is inherently problematic because a) personalities and status get elevated over the logic of the argument, b) following people instead of topics inherently feeds people’s egos in a problematic way, and c) a given person can use their followers problematically. On Reddit / Lemmy by following decentralized topics it eliminates most of these, though the mods controlling each subreddit can exercise some of the same influence.
    
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- Archer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Early Reddit was very libertarian, you would not believe how big Ron Paul was. It went more to the left once it got a mainstream audience
  
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Antiproton@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There are plenty of Trump supporters here. Every comment from someone who implies one shouldn’t vote for Harris because of the Israel-Gaza war is likely someone trying to suppress Democrat turnout. Single issue voting is the only way the GOP ever win.

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- OutsizedWalrus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The Gaza posts always make me laugh because they completely ignore that Trump would just glass Gaza.
  
  The only reason Trump hasn’t showed how terrible he’d be on Gaza is because he isn’t president right now.
  
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- Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Everyone who doesn’t stand behind me absolutely is my enemy.
  
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  - 20hzservers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Op here’s one ^
    
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  - skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sorry pal. Harris gonna win.
    
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  - Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Fascists deserve bashes
    
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- sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My brother in christ you cannot compromise on fucking genocide
  
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  - _core@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If all you’re voting on is how they respond to Gaza, Harris isn’t great but Trump is exponentially worse. He’s openly said that Israel should continue what they’re doing. In fact, in every metric of comparison Trump is exponentially worse. It’s not that we’re scared of Trump, it’s that he is so much worse in every regard.
    
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  - Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Found the trump supporter.
    
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  - I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The orange man is not the solution here, to be clear
    
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  - BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s so hard to take people seriously who talk like turbo redditors. My BrOtHeR iN lOw KeY cHrIsT.
    
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  - Bertuccio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Somehow people think that pointing out people are pro-genocide means that Trump somehow isn’t pro-genocide.
    
    Like you’re not allowed to think about two problems at once. Or that there are no other options…
    
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  - JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’re willing to let millions die for how many more generations in Gaza with Hamas in charge, and tens of millions if Iran shoots its shot at Israel. Grow up.
    
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  - Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You keep his name out of your fuckdamn heathen mouth…
    
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- Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Another brand new account posting the same tired bad faith party lines.
  
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- Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You: “Hitler can’t take back office, but we do need to continue the concentration camps. People who don’t want concentration camps are directly supporting Hitler.”
  
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- Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  excellent bait, good sir 👍
  
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VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Most likely your instance is defederated from all the nazi-adjacent instances 🤷

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- SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah. It’s the advantage but also disadvantage of the Fediverse. If you’re on the wrong instance you won’t even notice that certain ideologies are right out blocked by the instance owner. This can go into all political directions. You wouldn’t even notice this happening unless you do research on which instances are blocked by yours.
  
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  - VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personally I’m cool with that. I don’t think daily exposure to actual fascists is good for one’s head. And I wouldn’t mind .ml getting the axe too (though I’m not gonna be the one pestering my instance admin about that) because Tankies are equally as draining.
    
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  - mbp@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s the thing. On one hand I like not being bombarded by the shit opinions but on the other I like being informed at what the talking points are (to a degree) because I find that keeps me sharp against the opposition. When I read or hear about conservative viewpoints, I only think about how obtuse the logic is so it’s not something I worry at all about affecting my mindspace so this might not be a solution to everyone.
    
    I’m still torn on the topic since it’s nice to not give a platform to obviously shit ideals since that’s how the misinformation spreads but I still wonder if there’s an even better protocol out there we haven’t been able to even comprehend yet.
    
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dan00@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Without echo chambers, the weak trump supporter gets bullied and humiliated, leaving defeated and confused back to his herd. Nature is beautiful. “

David Attenborough, maybe

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- LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Haha are you implying that Lemmy isn’t an echo chamber?
  
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  - doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It definitely definitely is.
    
    But it’s not a Trump echo chamber, hence their absence.
    
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  - LemurEyes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s insane. I left reddit because I thought it was an over-moderated echo chamber with too much corporate influence. Lemmy is somehow an even worse echo chamber and it didn’t need corporate influence to see it happen.
    
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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Closer to reality than you think. He did a parody narration of “the MAGAs”.
  
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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We don’t take kindly to folks who don’t take kindly 'round here.

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socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You haven't seen any of the "genocide Joe" trolls?

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- acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yes I think the bigger problem here is right wing propagandists masquerading as lefties.
  
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  - fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My honest interpretation is that there are actually very few right wing propagandists masquerading as lefties, but they are very effective at bringing hapless idiot lefties to their narrative.
    
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  - harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh you mean ml?
    
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  - Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are you referring to Lemmy.world?
    
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- RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They’ve all but vanished after Biden dropped out of the race.
  
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- InternetUser2012@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Careful with that troll word, there are mods that will ban you for saying it. They tell you to report trolls to them, so I did (a very obvious troll) and I got banned. Pretty neat you can’t appeal, and you can’t find out which mod did it either.
  
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mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re here, anything pro trump is often downvoted, and most things heavily critical of the Dems are also often downvoted.

For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.

If you sort new, you’ll see it pop up from time to time.

It’s hard to tell sometimes, but it certainly feels like some political regimes are trying out dropping propaganda here or there into the conversation. I’m sure most of it is from genuine users, but there are some comments that just look like they’re here to stir up dissent.

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- snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.
  
  That is for the better.
  
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- vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The difference to Reddit et al is that votes don’t generally matter a huge lot in here. And you can easily hide them.
  
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- goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  However Lots of places love to call those pointing out flaws in democratic policies trump supporters unfortunately
  
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I like it this way. It’s not an “echo chamber” because we do have some interesting liberal vs leftist discussions. I think I’ve already heard quite enough conservative nonsense though; they aren’t entitled to my consideration forever.

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sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There are a couple masquerading as Green Party supporters, and you do see blatently pro-Trump posters occasionally, but most of them are lurkers who, if they comment, hide behind criticizing Democrats rather than voicing pro-Trump sentiments.

Look for the people who were smashing Biden for the debate behavior while ignoring Trump’s Alzheimer’s symptoms. The people being nitpicking Harris or Walz, while being silent about the Couch-Fucker and Orange Stalin. Those are the pro-Trump lurkers. There aren’t many, though, because they don’t thrive outside of an echo chamber.

Lemmy’s an echo chamber as well, but you’ll find plenty of people who criticize both parties, and while a lot of people like Kamala, very few claim she’s perfect, or worship her. And there’s plenty of legitimate criticism of the Democratic party, and strong sentiment about a need for change in US politics. This is the sort of discussion and debate which would not be sanctioned in most conservative forums, and could easily get you banned. So I think it’s fair to say Lemmy is far less echo-y than most.

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- slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think that your metrics for picking covert Trumpers based upon that appaling debate is incorrect and simplistic. I watched every second of that shit show and believed that we were doomed for another 4 years of the orange turd.
  
  Trump lied during the debate. Some estimates were that he lied upwards of 250 times in his 45 minutes at the mic. Those numbers seems off, but who knows? I don’t know the true figure, but it was insane. However, it is also not the fucking point. Trump is a serial liar. He lies to his family, he lies to the people, he lies to the courts, he lies non-stop. He would have lied if Biden performed outstandingly in the debate. He would have lied if Biden put in a middling performance. And, he lied when Biden performed badly. Are we supposed to be clutching our pearls in shock that Trump lied?
  
  So, we can’t judge Biden’s terrible performance by the ‘other guy’. We need to judge whether Biden could win in November. And if you had of watched all 90 minutes, like I did, there was zero confidence that he could. The GOP campaign would have portrayed Biden’s lost moments a million times, over and over and over again. And they’d be stupid not to. And yes, Trump lied in the debate. Let’s try and turn the broken bus around on the seemingly new information that a serial liar lied on stage.
  
  The proof of this was the instant jump in the polls once Harris became the candidate and the growing support since. Is the argument that all these covert GOP critics suddenly turned Dems? Or, perhaps, changing to Haris was the sensible thing to do, and perhaps, just might keep the orange turd out of the white house.
  
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- sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No these people are definitely leftist. Why would we criticize trump when we know there is no chance of altering his policy. Atleast with the democrats we might (and thats a big maybe) push them left by refusing to vote and being vocal about our opposition to genocide
  
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goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There is a conservative comm on lemm.ee

It’s a shit hole though as expected

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- LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Remember when they banned the word “fascist?”
  
  Self-awarenes doesn’t seem to be their strength.
  
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- JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is there? Damn I just kinda picked an instance randomly before I really understood what that meant. Now I’m sad.
  
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Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They absolutely exist. But in general, I think most people here are informed and choose a wide variety of information to consume. That is exactly the opposite of most Trump supporters.

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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Trump supporters tend to hang out in the /modlog community. Try there first.

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krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Decentralized network designed to stand up to big tech by gay trans furries. Not much appeal for those folks round these parts.

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- sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Designed by communists as well, not the favorite of coservatives
  
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Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They are, but defederation helps keep the echo chambers separate.

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- WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  On DB0, we get both sides. It makes for a pretty interesting experience. I haven’t felt a need to actually block anybody.
  
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- Subverb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Doesn’t that just create an echo chamber here?
  
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doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There probably are some right-wing instances, but I’m guessing they all got defederated for… reasons…

Conservatives already have their own platforms e.g. truth social, twitter, 4chan, others

The very format of Lemmy is more egalitarian. For example, it gives an enormous amount of power to individual users to filter out unwanted content, and decentralizes content moderation over a variety of instances. This doesn’t appeal to some right-wing ideologues who seem to value more hierarchical, centralized systems. Basically, Lemmy is more democratic (or has the potential to be more democratic) than other platforms.
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uebquauntbez@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They all on truth. And by truth i mean not truth, i mean the a-social network truth.

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- Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They’re also back past the critical edgiboi quotient nowadays over at the other site that starts with r
  
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Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lemmy in general is developed and maintained by Communists, for starters. FOSS in general, especially FOSS social media, is a Leftist answer to already existing Capitalist Social Media.

There are right-wing instances like Exploding Heads, which is a Nazi instance, but they are defederated from every major instance.

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- unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  FOSS in general … and FOSS social media … is a leftist answer to capitalist social media …
  
  This is how you can tell me you’re a troll and know nothing of the history of personal computing.
  
  [Tried to approximate the quote, couldn’t copy and paste on mobile]
  
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Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because the fascist fuckwads would be run out of town on a rail.

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xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re here, you can find them if you look in the right places - however, most fediverse admins are technically apt and left leaning so Trump bullshit often gets folks banned and, when it doesn’t, they usually get a very negative response.

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There was an alt-right instance made that got defederated quickly.

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drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There is a whole separate lemmyverse full of conservatives and pedophilia. They are defederated from every sane instance.

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athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In addition to the other points made, not nearly as many people use Lemmy so it’s not as much of a target for bots.

The alt-right/Trump content on sites like Reddit and Twitter is amplified out of proportion by bots.

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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There are/were some users and communities… a couple of Lemmy examples I remember…

Wolfballs was a conservative troll Lemmy server that was quickly defederated by major servers for their antics. They shut they server down after some years, way before Lemmy got to the size it is now.

Old_Geezer (@marathon@lemmy.ca) was a prolific poster and was a long time Lemmy member on Lemmy.ca, had some decent takes, but modded a geopolitics community where daily he posted the right-wing version of Russian propaganda, banning anyone that posted stuff there that went against that narrative. About 3 months ago, he was getting tired of the community pushback, eventually got banned by admins for his moderating behaviour.

!conservative@lemm.ee is an example of an active conservative community on Lemmy. You can see there is one regular poster and nearly all the posts are net downvoted. I request people don’t go there just for the purpose of picking a fight.

Most community mods and site admins don’t proactively remove conservative opinions as long as they aren’t personal attacks or trolling, and that they’re not being xenophobic in a community that’s meant to have safe discussion for a group (e.g. anti-trans rhetoric in a trans-oriented community). However conservative opinions do get downvoted heavily by users, occasionally getting reported which sometimes leads to comment removals and bans. So it can be tiring to keep participating in a generally left-leaning network that rejects or is hostile to them.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t like the deranged trumpists but unfortunately there’s not much Christian discussion on here and ! christianity@lemmy.world gets downvote brigaded

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Luck perhaps? I don’t think I have seen any politics post that didn’t have at least one in the comments.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They generally get defederated from the major instances.

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Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re cowards?

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