In other thread I got vibe that majority of Lemmy users support communism and CCP. Is support for Russia/Putin? Or have I just stumble in a post dominated by those people.

I also read a phrase “lemmy.ml” user. Is lemmy.ml instance considered communist?

I understand there will be more left leaning users in Lemmy compared to Reddit. But I expected moderate left and not radical communist left.

What is your opinion on that?

  • hostops@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    2 months ago

    Another question. Why does this post have so many down votes? I have some ideas but I am not sure which is the real reason:

    1. Asking about generalization could be considered unpopular.
    2. Are communists down voting me?
    3. Badly written post. (I mean English is not my first language and I do believe lemmy needs more content and I am trying to go out of my comfort zone and be more active user)
    4. This topic is just unpopular?
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      2 months ago

      The lemmy.ml/lemmygrad instances LOVE to downvote anything against their ideas. Wouldn’t be surprised if someone saw your post and told them to come down vote you for whatever reason.

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      It’s the way you opened your post. You felt that perhaps Lemmy is largely communist, and some of us just don’t see that trend at all. That means either you’re ignoring many users, or you haven’t spent a reasonable amount of time browsing, which in turn makes it a waste of time for us to answer your question.

      That being said, I can only speak to my motivation. Presumably some other people downvoted for similar reasons.

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      Questions/comments about communism that aren’t positive get a lot of downvotes here.