Listen, I understand people’s viewpoints on this but I’d much rather have the website be “Fuck nazis” far-left than “I want to murder people because of their ethnicity” far-right. Anything other than that is complacent towards some hateful shit.
The issue comes from the authoritarians who think their authorianism is great because its done under a flag they like.
i.e. people will completely deny uyghur genocide happening, or the fact the Putin is fascist as fuck and has been running a christian nationalist regime for decades.
Its obvious their beliefs dont come from love of their people like the Black Panthers focused on. Their beliefs comes from hate so anything that makes the countries that are anti-west look bad they will deny or try to spin it and say its actually a good thing.
They essentially run from one oppressor to another instead of understanding all the superpowers are run by people who dont care about the citizens. Nuance and compassion are important but instead they want to believe everything anything remotely anti-west is good and true and anything else is propaganda. Theyre like average redditors who will complain about tiktok being spyware because it’s a company from China and should be deleted while seeing no problem with Google’s spyware OS and apps.
If you mean the former, through my experience chatting with folks here, lemmy.ml is mixed and diverse since most newcomers sign up there instead of browsing through other instances (probably because it’s most active but that doesn’t matter since there’s federation). However, lemmy.ml is officially leftist as the sidebar states (something controversial and witnessed many debates).
Regarding the latter, while lemmy can be said to be not in favor of a specific ideology since the present instances are from all sides of the political spectrum. There are as well instances that aren’t attached to a political ideology which is something to be encouraged on the website. The admins (also mods of lemmy.ml) have explicitly declared their leftist sentiments but outside of lemmy.ml I see no issue with that.
There’s some far-left takes on Lemmy for sure. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, but it does limit growth when Lemmy.ml, which ultimately is the main instance, advertises it.
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That label is going to be hard to shake. Both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are pretty explicitly far left in intent.
Listen, I understand people’s viewpoints on this but I’d much rather have the website be “Fuck nazis” far-left than “I want to murder people because of their ethnicity” far-right. Anything other than that is complacent towards some hateful shit.
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The issue comes from the authoritarians who think their authorianism is great because its done under a flag they like.
i.e. people will completely deny uyghur genocide happening, or the fact the Putin is fascist as fuck and has been running a christian nationalist regime for decades.
Its obvious their beliefs dont come from love of their people like the Black Panthers focused on. Their beliefs comes from hate so anything that makes the countries that are anti-west look bad they will deny or try to spin it and say its actually a good thing.
They essentially run from one oppressor to another instead of understanding all the superpowers are run by people who dont care about the citizens. Nuance and compassion are important but instead they want to believe everything anything remotely anti-west is good and true and anything else is propaganda. Theyre like average redditors who will complain about tiktok being spyware because it’s a company from China and should be deleted while seeing no problem with Google’s spyware OS and apps.
Is it far left?
Lemmy.ml or all of lemmy?
If you mean the former, through my experience chatting with folks here, lemmy.ml is mixed and diverse since most newcomers sign up there instead of browsing through other instances (probably because it’s most active but that doesn’t matter since there’s federation). However, lemmy.ml is officially leftist as the sidebar states (something controversial and witnessed many debates).
Regarding the latter, while lemmy can be said to be not in favor of a specific ideology since the present instances are from all sides of the political spectrum. There are as well instances that aren’t attached to a political ideology which is something to be encouraged on the website. The admins (also mods of lemmy.ml) have explicitly declared their leftist sentiments but outside of lemmy.ml I see no issue with that.
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There’s some far-left takes on Lemmy for sure. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, but it does limit growth when Lemmy.ml, which ultimately is the main instance, advertises it.
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Lemmy.ml is not the main instance. There is no main instance. That’s the point of the fediverse.
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Correct.
What?