Yeah, ever since I first arrived on kbin, I’ve felt like a breeze is passing through me. It took me a while to realize, but then it hit me: it’s because I’m not enraging Redditors every day by just opening my mouth.
It’s always pretty refreshing to see Seth MacFarlane and Scott Grimes in real life after seeing them for years in American Dad
My only worry is that many Reddit refugees (which include myself) are highly left-leaning, and it can be much easier for progressive Americans especially to be lured into communist propaganda on unregulated servers than say, MAGA/QAnon philosophies, due to the fact that most of them don't actually know what it looks like, due to the fact that the United States is subverted in those narratives to look weak, which many serious liberals connect with, and due to the fact that because communist propaganda is based on a myth of Marxism and Leninism, it sounds like an intelligent philosophy of the people to the uninitiated, where MAGA philosophy sounds obviously delusional and greed-motivated.
Also, many Americans don't always know the difference between peaceful socialism and true communism, so users may be ripe for data manipulation and the threat of dangerous misinformation before they realize it. Many far-left liberals may be so resentful towards Reddit's actions that they may side with certain Lemmy radicals by accident. It's a bit of a wild west situation - like, there was a lot of far-right toxicity on Reddit, but it was pushed into certain corners. Here, I'm not sure if anyone realizes where the extremism exists yet.
"That's not democratic" is one way of putting it