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Leftist circlejerks everywhere (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by hillosipuli@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Am I the only one who gets bunch of posts from leftist and even communist subs/circlejerks in their feed? It's kinda weird to see genzedong and similar popping up in hot/rising feed. This just hopefully some of the growing pains of a new platform.

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[–] normalmighty@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it seems really common for any new social media platform to lean way too hard into wither the far left or right, instead of finding a middle ground where a wider range of political views can coexist.

But hey, if we had to pick one extreme, then far left is a lot better than the far right nazi apps that crop up a lot.

[–] Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They have been a lot of time here, they were here maybe one or two years before the reddit migration. In that scenery, apart from your own arguments against socialism, we can not oppose to that presence in the fediverse, they have been warm to welcome new people, and they are active part of community. We had to deal everyday with far-right in reddit, give yourself the opportunity to know something different.

[–] mister_monster@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

One or two years? Communists built Lemmy from scratch dude.

Source: I was there.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk about that, both extremes end up with millions dead.

[–] frustbox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Are we really still "both siding" this?

You have one side stating that the current social and economic systems cause a lot of people to suffer and die in poverty - maybe we could change the those systems so that the world becomes more fair and fewer people suffer.

While the other side basically says: people we don't like shouldn't exist. Let's make their lives more miserable.

And you think those two positions are the same?