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Were your politics more accepted on Lemmy than on Reddit? (lemmy.world)
submitted 19 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I'm asking because I wonder if Lemmy having a left wing, progressive, socialist, communist bent means Reddit was coming down hard on those ideologies (biased if you will) than right leaning, centrist or free market Capitalist ideologies?

Side question, if Lemmy grows do you think the same will happen here?

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[–] 28 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 children)

There was hardly a conservative to be found on reddit until about 2013. I was sort of surprised when exremist conservatives showed up and became a force on the site. However, they ended up being so toxic that reddit banned a lot of their shit around 2017-2019. Last I was around there, people with typical US Democrat politics were the majority by a good bit. Of course that means lame conservatives come and whine about how liberal everyone is. Yeah dude, you’re not the majority, sorry.

Lemmy is far more leftist. It’s rare to encounter communist supporters on reddit, but not so much on Lemmy. I’d never heard of the term tankie before coming to lemmy.

As far as a group that seems more comfortable than on reddit, I’d say trans people found a home on Lemmy. (edited because this sentence was semi-incoherent)

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  • [–] 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Reddit didn't ban them. It took so much racist crap for TheDonald to get wiped, and even then, the same assholes just made a new sub and continued on with dogwhistles.

    Reddit also seemed to allow right wing brigading while punishing leftists in a very unbalanced manner. Multiple "moderate" (sane, non-tankie) left-wing subreddits had to close around major US political events because alt right chuds would swarm them and the admins didn't help. Meanwhile I once got a 30 day ban for "brigading" when all I did was going to a right wing post that was linked on a progressive sub and engaged in what I saw as good faith debates - and they were actually productive as I've received multiple comments from right leaning accounts about how I provided new perspective. No name calling or anything, actually civilised debate (which today seems impossible), around universal healthcare and education being something that benefits everyone in a society, even if indirectly...

    Then the whole thing turned to shit around 2018, and by Jan6, things got incredibly polarised, making debate impossible.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    They did ban r/ intcel, coontown, frenworld, fatpeoplehate, gendercritical, chapostraphouse, braincels, and various others. "the donald" was initially quarantined in 2019 and banned in 2020. By then they'd already let the scum who ran and frequented the sub run rampant over the site for way too long.

    I recall around 2017, various left-leaning subs started automatically banning anyone who participated in what they called hate subs. That was annoying because even if you went in t_d and said "wow, you guys are losers", you'd get banned from other subs by a bot.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    I mean, I got auto banned from a number of feminist subreddits like, 2-3 years after gamergate, because once upon a time I commented on the kotaku subreddit a few times (some big game release I think)...

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  • [–] 11 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    I remember there being a whole bunch of Ron Paul supporters on Reddit back when I joined it around 2009-ish

    It was a different breed of conservative than the MAGA types we have now, but you'd be pretty hard-pressed to label them anything but conservative.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    This is true of reddit and how I remember it. A lot more akin to 4chan of the time than not honestly, despite redditors acting as if they were above them, but I also changed over time. A consequence of my sheltered conservative christian 90's monoculture small prairie town upbringing, but I gradually moved more and more to the left with life experience and internet exposure. I wouldn't say I really settled until my early 30's. Perhaps as a Democratic Socialist, but I don't like to really adhere to any given labels. Was atheist the whole time but that didn't change much about my upbringing and initial views even if I was immune to the actual deity belief part of conservative religious indoctrination.

    reddit became less and less welcoming of me as time went on. Eventually leading to getting banned repeatedly, especially during Trump term 1.

    But to answer OP: Yeah, I don't run into much friction here, mind you, I block the tankie triad.

    Side question, if Lemmy grows do you think the same will happen here?

    I don't think it will, but no. I think more splintering into defined groups that get along would happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago*

    The Ron Paul supporters were libertarian flavored. I don't think they were social conservatives like we have now.

    I didn't agree with them wanting to cut services, but they weren't deranged like with what we have now.

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