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They probably thought lemmy was to reddit what truth/gab was to twitter (pre-elon twitter that is), or if you're memory is long enough, voat to reddit.
Like nah dude. Not all social media spinoffs are righties being mad they couldn't drop n-bombs.
I'm here cuz the RedditAlternatives sub on Reddit sent me here. Said it was the most populated Reddit alternative. I thought "Ok, but is it a right wing cesspool". Turns out it's not and the discourse here is much better than on Reddit.
thats what I thought lemmy was for the longest before joining, just another voat
I too tried Voat way back in the day, part of a small Reddit exodus when they were removing Snowden articles in worldnews without explanation (back when the user base of Reddit still cared about moderator transparency), and I learnt quickly that if a platform advertises itself as "censorship free" or something along those lines, what they really mean is "we thrive on hate speech here."
And after a few more years of checking out Reddit alternatives, I started to realise that basically all of them were "censorship free" and tailor made for trolls and bigots from banned Reddit communities like fatpeoplehate and jailbait.
By the time I heard about Lemmy, even though I didn't get the impression that it was just another Voat, I was also kinda disillusioned about ever finding a good Reddit alternative at that point. So I didn't bother trying.
And it has been a very pleasant surprise to find out how left wing it is here. That reputation is actually what made me try Bluesky before coming here and if I had known, I would've come here sooner. Finally an alternative that isn't just r/conservative - the website. And not just that, a platform that isn't full of 'centrists' that spend more time worrying about making sure the left wingers don't swear too much, then worrying about the right wingers taking people's rights away.