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[-] jagungal@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

It's way more privacy-oriented, but a lot of Reddit communities were already very left wing

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I can appreciate that aspect of lemmy, very technical users talking about very technical approaches to left-leaning codes of ethics, such as FOSS, privacy, self-hosting, etc. In this regard, Lemmy definitely is better than reddit and I'm learning a lot about it all in here, and am beginning to apply the things I've learned in my own life and computer systems.

As for actually being more left leaning? Nah son, it's the same ideas as reddit but with a sense of hatred for "reddit libruls" for not being true scotsmen. There are right leaning communities on both platforms, there for sure are more tankies over here, but almost every single moral stance found on reddit can be found here. Literally the only thing missing on reddit is such a Tech-oriented user base (which if we're honest, you could also find on reddit but it surfaces a lot more on lemmy in general) and the russia apologists.

Maybe people over here should stop playing the no true scotsman game and actually open up their doors and take it easy on the gatekeeping. And by "here" I mostly mean the tankie instances, holding their "holier than thou" stances n shit. Chill the fuck out, act like a true left leaner and work together with the people you're gatekeeping, get the movement going somewhere instead of armchair criticizing people for not being left-leaning enough.

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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