The reason I ask this question is that it seems like most people who leave Reddit for Lemmy—or the ones who get banned and then come here—got banned for some political reason. So it makes me wonder.
Also, not to mention, the content here is highly politically charged. Actually, I wouldn’t even say that. It’s just mostly political—and extreme.
In your honest opinion, do you think the Lemmy software was created as a place for political extremists to congregate, or was it legitimately made as a social media alternative to Reddit?
What’s your opinion? And what’s been your experience?
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If by ‘political’ you mean disagreeing with Reddit’s constant enshittification, then sure.
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The Lemmy software stack was literally created by political extremist. (Not activity pub as a whole) At least one of the lead developers is a tankie. Though is that really more extreme than most capitalist? Not really. Both are pretty extreme. Resulting in heavy centralization of power and resources to the detriment of the average person.
In general Activity Pub as a whole is definitely more left leaning and anarchist. Which is a good thing. If you think otherwise. Why would you think mutual aid, community, and smaller more accountable governance etc is a bad thing. After all it’s what extremely far right groups like the Republicans in the US pretend to stand for while delivering the opposite.
No one in society is politically neutral. And different isn’t necessarily extreme. If you can acknowledge that. You might find you have more in common than you think.
Activpub is the the embodiment of the marketplace of ideas. That’s not a left wing concept that’s the foundational argument for free speech. And from my experience its the left who hate free speech the most
The lemmy devs are extreme left wing. Like full tankie communist authoritarian. They created a platform inline with their ideals in terms of openness and communism and then get upset when people use it for things they disagree with. I think what they where planning on is building a majority of hard left extremism then defed using the network effect to thus silence anyone they disagree with.
They are losing that battle slowly. A lot of lemmy defederated the tankie triad thus robbing them of much power. They hate lemmy.world cos they allow somewhat right wing ideology but can’t defederated them cos network effect. They used mass false reporting against hc to GT us defederated by manny.
Lemmy is not a viable mainstream platform as it doesn’t allow the free exchange of ideas. It is technically the ideal platform for being a true mark place of ideas (that’s my motivation to join and push the concept). The devs are trying to fight portable identities as that truly opens the floodgates for free exchange of ideas across instances and makes defederating a tool moderate an instances content not a tool to silence descenting opinions as it acts now.
The issue with lemmy is that’s It’s Overton window is centre left to hard left. Moderates, moderate right, and hard right all get completely silenced. It thus cannot compete as a viable social media platform for normal people who expect to see a relatively even mix of opinions.
We can fix lemmy with: Portable identity technologically possible by borrowing did from atproto. And more centre right to hard right instances. They will all get defederated but they will federate with eachother build a viable user base and the network effect will force people to instances that allow both sides thus forcing everyone else to do the same.
