I've noticed lemmy seems to be far more left leaning than reddit
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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And Reddit is already pretty left leaning, on the whole.
like to the point of being pro communism for some reason
You’re on Lemmy.ml rn lol
It doesn't help that the devs unironically refer to themselves as tankies.
I mean, it's not a huge deal because, y'know, it's a federated service - but you could probably partially attribute the early population's leanings to that.
haha couldn't be me
You’d have to qualify that statement…. Left leaning according to which countries’ politics?
In the states for example, the democrat politicians are actually right of center.
If you are calling right of center, “left leaning” then I could possibly agree with you. But I don’t think you are saying what you think you’re saying.
I think that's a confusing way to look at it. Left is always more left than right, in any country.
I think you see more leftists/socialists on Lemmy than reddit, and fewer conservatives/nationalists than reddit. Liberals are about the same, I think.
I’m just saying the like 80% of Americans support progressive policies, but corporate media calls those same policies radical socialism.
I'd expect Lemmy to be a little older on average since a big chunk of the userbase is made up of people that had used reddit since the early days and want to recapture that, that demography also tended to be even more dominantly male, techy and political than the average redditor
I expect it's pretty close to the same demographic as early Reddit, left-leaning technologists. The Reddit dickery has given it a smattering of "everyone else" as they've been migrating away from Reddit.
It's smaller so while the general communities feel more niche and welcoming, the smaller communities I was a part of are just non-existent.
I'm trying to take a "if you build it, they will come" attitude, but I'm not a very creative person so I tend to just repost stuff friends send me on insta.
None of which is surprising really (I’m referring to everything mentioned here, from age to tech-mindedness and left-leaning views). It takes at least some technical knowledge and somewhat noticeable preference for FOSS-like stuff to bother with joining alternative platforms.
Not saying it’s not easy, kbin is pretty much identical to other social media in terms of sign-up simplicity. But you have to actively want it to pursue it. And a lot of people don’t want to get into that, since media outlets and even random users have been whining about how hard it is to wrap your head around fediverse.
I’d guess we’ll see more activity going forward. The general sentiment takes some time to catch up.
I would say it's the sentiment and popularity that matters more to them that hearing that it's difficult to use is just one way for them to justify not making the switch. One of the big reason Twitter and reddit are still kicking despite what they are doing.
I think we are a bit older here too.
We had a very similar question last week, please see shat thread. Removing under rule #4.