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.
Interesting. Thank you for the contribution. It is much appreciated.
Eventually logic and educated thought will drive them to somewhere else. Their ideas look great on paper but never live up to the hype. Human society doesn't cooperate well in groups larger than one hundred. You need strict rules and major punishments for large groups and that leads to an imbalance of power and authoritarian rule.
Because the current system is working so well eh?
that's why we're striving to create a decentralized/federated society instead of a centralized one :D
I personally like it
Breath of fresh air for sure!
Because the internet is a place where people from the real world come to share their thoughts? I hate to break it to you, but their presence here means they exist in the real world too. So your question could just as well be "why are there so many commies in the world"?
Why so snarky? I just noticed that fed is way more communist than any other space I have ever been in and I am a lecturer at a very left leaning University, living in a very left leaning community.
Yeah there is a lot of communists for some reason
This software was made by commies. You are welcome :)
Specific to Lemmy, perhaps because it was/is developed by communists in reaction to a perceived pro-western, America-centric bias on the rest of the web? See the History of Lemmy.
Yep, they absolutely hate we made c/politics centered on the West.
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.
Takes one to know one.
A fox smells its own hole.
How do you know they're Communists/Marxists? I mean yeah, I noticed something might be the case, but I wouldn't assume it's because they're Communists/Marxists. Not that I would mind (even though I'm not a Communist/Marxist), just being a Communist/Marxist alone is not a big deal (as opposed to being someone who fits the stereotypes of one).
I will say though I do have a friend who identifies that way who I recommended to this place. She has been struggling and I thought it would be a good gesture.
Because the Fediverse is still small and they haven't been drown out yet.
You say, on the original server which isn't .ml because of a connection to Mali (it's Marxist-Leninist).
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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.
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