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)

Not really.

I don't want to murder etsy quilters for participating in capitalism and I'm comfortable hearing opinions I don't agree with, so the lemmigarchs and groupthink-meme-peasantry both get angry at me a lot here.

I am very glad that more people here are to the left of me rather than the right, but it hasn't seemed to make discussion any easier.

I just don't see the Fediverse catching on widely overall, and if it does it will splinter.

I will no longer tolerate bad faith discussion, targeted violent rhetoric, and blatantly insulting comments.

We have, largely, been better here, and I hope to... if not keep it that way, then at least continue to advocate for a better form of discussion that promotes understanding. I say this because, as a leftist, I have been dragged further left by being here in ways that have measurably changed the lives of people around me.

Keeping a social media space relatively non-toxic HELPS PEOPLE. Let's try.

my politics piss everyone off because they are pragmatic rather than based on idealism.

Wasn't all that active on Reddit before I got banned for "security reasons" (which I still to this day have no idea what they mean by that), but it was a mixed bag on Reddit. Which makes sense, there is a LOT of users on Reddit after all. On Lemmy? It seems like everyone is one of two factions here: Liberals/Progressives/Social Democrats or the Tankies, and which one you encounter when posting or replying is seemingly random to me. It's unfortunately emblematic of the current day left though where both sides spend more time infighting than actually opposing the right. Though tbf, the right has gone off the deep end so hard that there's nothing of substance to engage with anymore from their side. Anyway, I could be entirely wrong though and it isn't just two waring factions here. I imagine if Lemmy was as big as Reddit though that it would be a mixed bag of ideologies since there would be a lot of normies as well

I didn't engage in politics on reddit because there was other content there. Here not so much.

I'm in a weird spot where some people would consider me right wing and some would consider me left wing. I believe I'm closer to the left but I do have some Right ideas. Because of this no community fully accepts my opinions. But on Lemmy atleast we can argue without some fuckass mod deleting the messages and banning everyone.

I have views that lots people on social media will disagree on, but unless they are far-right, I think its still not exactly completely hostile.

But here, oh boy, if you aren't left enough, you are a "fascist".

By Lemmy standards, most people I've talked to would be "fascist". Your uncle with a small bussiness complaining about a liberal politician? Yep he's literally adolf hitler. Your grandma that only ever gets fed propaganda? She's no different from someone cheering at the gas chambers. Your male classmates that never had good influence in their life and fell into a manosphere rabbit hole because the left abandoned young men, and they just wanna feel better and be "alpha" (or whatever it is they say)? Oh yea according to Lemmy, we should just shoot all these people. Shoot your grandma cuz its her fault for watching propaganda. Your uncle is a nazi because he has a stuggling bussines and got swindled by a politician. Dont even bother teying to talk to your conservative neighbor, Lemmy commands you to shoot them on sight. Everyone is evil unless they are 100% Socialist.

I would say Lemmy is better than 4chan or someshit like that, but its not some internet paradise.

But at least you wont get called a slur here, thats the best part about far-left spaces over the far-right. Radical racial inclusivity and pro LGBTQ is the best thing about Lemmy, even when toxicity happens, at least your race or sexual lifestyle is never criticized. But "more accepted" is not exactly the right word.

I was banned on Reddit for being too pro-choice, so I’d say so.

well, I'm not perma banned here.

I'll let that fact speak for itself.

I'm liberal as fuck so you'd think I'd get along good with both Reddit and Lemmy, but I've been drawn into so many knock-down, drag-out flame wars on both platforms with people I agree with on 95% of the stuff under discussion that I just noped out of discussing US politics online altogether.

Applying this question to Lemmy as a whole strikes me as a sign of the basic point of the Fediverse being missed. It's not supposed to be a single community.

My politics are are universally unacceptable so I fit in here just as well as anywhere.