My thought on why you see more communists, anarchists, and leftists in general in open source and federated platforms is that efforts centered around collaboration are likely to draw people who are more collaborative-minded.
- lemmy’s two main developers are marxist-leninists
- the largest and most active instance prior to the reddit exodus was hexbear, which is a “big tent” of revolutionary leftism, featuring mostly communists and some anarchists
- lemmygrad, an explicitly marxist-leninist instance, is also relatively large
And to speak to grad and hexbear, a large part of the reason there are commies here is because they were driven off other platforms. Hexbear and Grad are both decendent from active communities that reddit banned.
Seeing all the scaremongering about those communities here reminds me of the old comic. :
I’ve literally never seen a better fit for this comic
It’s like it was made for this specific moment lol
This is fascinating to me. Thank you. Do you have some insight into how the leadership and centralisation of power dilemma of traditional leninist ideology is reconciled within the fed? I noticed many of my student groups running into issues with the concept.
The fediverse isn’t a political organization that’s going to enact change in the real world, so those concerns largely aren’t relevant. Admins (and devs) generally speaking do hold a monopoly of power but that’s the standard for the internet.
Honestly, the same reason you see more Linux users. Federation attracts a certain type of person. Other types of people use Reddit or other services like Twitter.
Imteresting, thank you. I will dwell on the topic further.
Dwell?
You know, like go for a long walk next to the ocean and throw some rocks, ponder life, then have an epiphany and run home.
Part of it is the fact that the more right-wing instances end up full of nasty hateful shit which results in everybody else defederating from them - just look at Exploding Heads where two of the posts on their front page are “I absolutely hate fat people” and “I support Trump because if he wins there will be mass suicides”; not exactly the kind of content most users want to engage with!
I’m not sure if you’re aware but “commie” is a derogatory term … if you didn’t know that it’s fine. Now you do.
If you did know that and you’re intending to be derogatory then go fuck yourself.
You say, on the original server which isn’t .ml because of a connection to Mali (it’s Marxist-Leninist).
I personally like it
Breath of fresh air for sure!
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Tankies made the software.
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Conservatives left Reddit after The Donald got banned, and the bulk of the users on Lemmy came from Reddit.
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Libertarians are busy arguing over New Hampshire’s twitter.
I don’t really see the link between these three points.
Could you elaborate?
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