And how is that any different from Reddit? If you waltzed into r/politics, you would have basically the same thing you just described.

OP, if you legitimately cared about getting a balanced view, then get a RSS reader and read news from either Associated Press and Reuters, or read news from outlets like Fox and CNBC. You can also just look for a right-leaning Fediverse instance because I can guarantee you that you can find one.

You're also forgetting that the internet doesn't revolve around the US. There are all kinds of nationalities on here, a mich wider range than Reddit (proportionally), and by far, the majority doesn't care what Trump has done or hasn't done.

Lemmy isn't a platform at all. It's a piece of forum software.

The platforms are the individual instances - lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or lemm.ee or whatever. There's well over 1,000 of them total. And they range all the way from extreme left to extreme right, and from rigidly constrained to entirely open.

And since it is the case that there are well over 1,000 instances, each of them privately owned and managed by whatever standards the owners prefer, there is no mechanism by which any particular bias can be maintained at anything above the instance level. That necessarily means that any lemmy-wide bias you might see can only be organic.

You might honestly think about that, and what it says about the ideology you're trying to pretend you're not defending.

You will never be able to stop people having biases, I think we have learned that thus far. It is really hard to prevent no matter where you go. What Lemmy allows the individual to do is remove those constantly negative hate groups from being visible for them. Lemmy gives us options, you can block users, communities, and instances. Well that's great and all, but maybe you still want to see political content, just not negative stuff constantly.

Part of being federated is that we can have multiple politics communities of the same name on many different instances. If you have a power mod suppressing one community, you can go to another or create your own under your rules that you see fit. Some moderators and user dynamics do a really good job at removing biases as best they can for the sake of good journalism.

It is no easy feat to accomplish that, but Lemmy (and the fediverse in general) makes it possible to accomplish. You can't say that for many other social networks.

Is Lemmy a biased platform?

Yes, but not biased enough IMO

I'm a trans woman. On the fediverse at large, transphobia isn't tolerated. It gets shut down hard. Here on lemmy and kbin, it can go either way. Some places are happy to let transphobia slide, which means we have to deal with more hate on the day to day than we do with the rest of the fediverse.

I'd be happy to see more bias towards not indulging transphobes and their hate.

Bud, a former president of the US has been indicted for 70 crimes in three different criminal cases, and is likely to be indicted with up to 8 additional crimes in a fourth case. This is the biggest set of indictments since Nixon. The notion that you would expect this not to be major news or that merely reporting on it suggests bias is mind-boggling.

It certainly leads credence to Steven Colbert’s claim, “Reality has a well-know liberal bias.”

Because of Rule 1.

I'm sorry at this point if you don't see that Trump is a harmful idiot at best then I don't know what to tell you. Also, fuck Biden too in case you think this is a US republican vs democrat thing because it's not. People here are mostly left leaning and that extends beyond US politics and their democratic party. Is that a bad thing? Possibly but prominent self identified right wingers on the internet don't really offer very compelling reasons to listen to them in all honesty.

"Bias" doesn't mean "I disagree with it". It means the speaker is being dishonest about their motives.

In the most simple sense, could Republican submissions survive

Probably not. But that has more to do with the insanity coming out of the Republican party than any sort of unfair "bias" against them. Lying down with dogs and so forth.

Yeah, stay out of political communities. Based on my experience in political communities. Lemmy is biased.

Stay out of politics. Enjoy Lemmy.

Server owners and admins, and communities creators and mods can set the tone of the communities they manage, of course.

If you think a car community is too ford-leaning you can look for or create another one, if it's the whole instance then subscribe to another instance cars community (I'm subscribed to the same communities from several instances, I guess it has to be pretty common), or even make an account in that other instance just in case the Chevy folk start hanging out with nazis, as they always end up doing, and the rest defederate from them.

Edit: oh! And you can block all the posts with a specific site as a source, so you can take away everything from fordnews.com and not see it anymore

I didn’t read your whole wall of text but lemmy does have a strong alt-left / marxist / anti-western population