• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Because Lemmy.ml is federated with anti-leftist instances like Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ca. Lemmy.ml has a weird mix of very pro-Leftist posters and very anti-Leftist commenters because of this, people tend to post more on their own instances but often times scroll by all for commenting.

      More self-sufficient Leftist instances like Hexbear or Lemmygrad don't see the same circumstances.

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Why are liberals on a decentralized platform anyway? Surely the free market has provided adequate platforms for everyone's needs

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          The Liberals on instances like Lemmy.world are too ideological to stay on Reddit, but have read no Marxist Theory and have not correctly identified the reasons why Reddit went wrong, and was always destined to go wrong. If they were Leftists, they would join an instance that doesn't defederate with Leftists as policy.

          That's why Lemmy.world is just Reddit 2.

          • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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            3 months ago

            They left reddit to teach them a lesson for changing the recipe of their favorite capitalist treat, but have given no thought or import to the decentralized nature of the platform they left it for.

          • danciestlobster@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            While I basically agree with this, I would argue there may be some liberals who just haven't been exposed to actual communism/been too heavily propagandized and seeing the discourse on very left instances could gain some supporters. I guess this specific post comment section is maybe a bad example, but I would venture a guess most leftists were liberals once

        • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          Reddit took away their precious apps, that's the only reason. They have no problems at all with its western-supremacist political aims.

      • MaeBorowski@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        If .worlders could see hexbear and lemmygrad, they'd have an aneurysm. But then some of them would recover and look further into it and realize the commies are right. But that is of course why they're not allowed to see it, as you said.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      The western-supremacists literally can't keep their mouths shut, when given a chance to denounce any country they consider "barbarian".