Yes, Lemmy is probably 60% people who were banned from Reddit for being overly political.
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Piatro@programming.dev 10 months ago
There’s probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit’s practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 10 months ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
“I want rights”
“I want to not be an open air slave to the billionaires”
“I recognize some deep systemic flaws of our systems”
I guess that’s overly political.
njm1314@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hell, on Reddit being anti-nazi is considered political.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Nazis were and are a political group. Opposing them is political.
dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I didn’t get banned but I definitely would have by now if I’d stayed.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not to mention almost everything is political these days…
Like, the root cause of most our issues are political and there’s a lot of issues. So it shouldn’t be surprising most topics are tied back to it.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
When 1/3 of the country makes the president their entire personality, and hate the other 70%, whether they are LGBTQ, minority, democrats, or just women, it’s going to be hard to avoid politics.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 months ago
one particular country.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Yeah, Duterte just got reelected, and he’s in prison at the Hague rn.
timeless@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
[deleted]rabber@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
And if you tell other normal people to come here eventually this place will become less extremist
abdominable@lemm.ee 10 months ago
First time on the Internet huh?
rabber@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Well eventually there will be so many normies it becomes reddit then we just have to start over again lol
dumblederp@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I’d say lemmy has a stronger “fuck the system” vibe, whatever the topic. Privacy, trans rights, environmental issues, financial oligarchy…
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Even the system supporters pretend they don’t these days
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’.
Is broke’.