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Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] wwaxwork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Algorithms and AI. Rage gets views, so it's what gets pushed to the top, so it gets even more views, so it gets pushed to the top.

[โ€“] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, Lemmy has address to this by just having an incredibly glitchy algorithm (look at this post with five up votes from four months ago, it deserves to be on the front page). No one can game it because no one understands it.