Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?

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• lady_maria@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think a lot of the people on Lemmy came from Reddit when the whole API thing happened. It was pretty much a boycott. I assume most of the people who cared enough about that to leave were mostly left-leaning.

  That’s why I’m here, at least.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s only one way you can support Trump today.

  You either refuse to acknowledge all the terrible things he’s done, or you approve of the things he’s done.

  People who refuse to acknowledge, are going to look at all the “fake news” on this site about His Oranginess, and quickly decide that it’s nothing but propaganda and go somewhere “more reliable”.

  Those who agree, stock around a little longer. They will argue and defend the horrible things, because they think there are more like them that will come out and back them up as a fellow defender of --racism-- --misogyny-- --homophobia-- “Good old family values”. But they will be downvoted to oblivion and have trouble finding a friendly voice. Eventually, they too will go where they can have a more comfortable discussion with people who are as terrible as they are.

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  • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You either refuse to acknowledge all the terrible things he’s done, or you approve of the things he’s done.

    This is two ways.

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• mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re here, anything pro trump is often downvoted, and most things heavily critical of the Dems are also often downvoted.

  For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.

  If you sort new, you’ll see it pop up from time to time.

  It’s hard to tell sometimes, but it certainly feels like some political regimes are trying out dropping propaganda here or there into the conversation. I’m sure most of it is from genuine users, but there are some comments that just look like they’re here to stir up dissent.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.

    That is for the better.

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    • hypna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would be nice to have some opposition, though. Even if most “conservative” media right now is little more than xenophobia, or cult worship, there do exist sound arguments against the typical internet-left positions. I don’t have a solid enough read on what comes through New in the fediverse to say whether any of that is being submitted and just downvoted off everyone’s feeds, or if all that’s being submitted is the average conservative media junk.

      Still, political spaces without opposition/diversity invariably degenerate into purity contests, and circle jerking.

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You occasionally run into some disagreeable but unobjectionable “traditional” conservative opinions, usually around economics and the governments role in it, but trump shit isn’t that. We can be friends if you think a market solution is viable or better than an entitlement program. We can’t be friends if you think a significant portion of your fellow citizens are vermin or that we should just let terrible problems continue or get worse.

      The window has just shifted so far that literal objective depictions of reality are described as “left”.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re here, you can find them if you look in the right places - however, most fediverse admins are technically apt and left leaning so Trump bullshit often gets folks banned and, when it doesn’t, they usually get a very negative response.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They absolutely exist. But in general, I think most people here are informed and choose a wide variety of information to consume. That is exactly the opposite of most Trump supporters.

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  !conservative@lemm.ee ?

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• cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the hard-right people have mostly self-exiled to their own echo chambers like truth.social and other places that are Donald-used-and-approved. I think he’s also active on Twitter again now that Musk has destroyed all content moderation on the platform. They follow their great leader and unless and until he starts posting his demagoguery on Lemmy they have no interest and no reason to come here.

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• norimee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have seen the one or the other, but they were immediately down voted into oblivion.

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  • occultist8128@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sad to be trump supporter here tho lol

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    • norimee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its sad to be a trump supporter everywhere.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They generally get defederated from the major instances.

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All I know is that I use socials to get away from political bullshit

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  • occultist8128@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    me too, tbh.

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• chottomatte@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy and Maatodon clearly accept left-wing values more than right-wing

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• athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In addition to the other points made, not nearly as many people use Lemmy so it’s not as much of a target for bots.

  The alt-right/Trump content on sites like Reddit and Twitter is amplified out of proportion by bots.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are/were some users and communities… a couple of Lemmy examples I remember…

  Wolfballs was a conservative troll Lemmy server that was quickly defederated by major servers for their antics. They shut they server down after some years, way before Lemmy got to the size it is now.

  Old_Geezer (@marathon@lemmy.ca) was a prolific poster and was a long time Lemmy member on Lemmy.ca, had some decent takes, but modded a geopolitics community where daily he posted the right-wing version of Russian propaganda, banning anyone that posted stuff there that went against that narrative. About 3 months ago, he was getting tired of the community pushback, eventually got banned by admins for his moderating behaviour.

  !conservative@lemm.ee is an example of an active conservative community on Lemmy. You can see there is one regular poster and nearly all the posts are net downvoted. I request people don’t go there just for the purpose of picking a fight.

  Most community mods and site admins don’t proactively remove conservative opinions as long as they aren’t personal attacks or trolling, and that they’re not being xenophobic in a community that’s meant to have safe discussion for a group (e.g. anti-trans rhetoric in a trans-oriented community). However conservative opinions do get downvoted heavily by users, occasionally getting reported which sometimes leads to comment removals and bans. So it can be tiring to keep participating in a generally left-leaning network that rejects or is hostile to them.

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