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I'll admit that I struggled to figure out Mastodon when twitter changed hands. For me it was either too confusing or not worth figuring out. Maybe it was just the nature of it being more about personal posts, so each server was much more different.
I had no such trouble with Lemmy/Beehaw. Drop-in replacement. That said, I don't think I'm a communist? I'm not a raging capitalist either though? I'm just kinda here.
If you joined beehaw, you aren't exposed to lemmygrad which is what they may be talking about. Some of them are far, far left and because they outnumbered other Lemmy users, the general vibe of viewing posts was a little extreme.
They are dropping away on the community browser so they may be relegated to niche rather than dominant as more users join.
As someone who is far, far left, I just want to say that Lemmygrad doesn't represent us all. The libertarian left is very different.
Lemmygrad in general represents a pretty narrow band of Marxist-Leninists that was chased off of Reddit. There’s no effective representation of 1: Marxist-Leninist-Maoists (formulated in the RIM in the 1990s) and 2: Anarchists (who as much as I disagree with make up a pretty large contingent of folks developing a class consciousness without an understanding of dialectical materialism.)
I guess this is the fediverse though. Nothings stopping me from making my own server or community. (Besides being called a westoid baizuo by some guy with a stalin pfp :P)
Yeah it'd definitely be nice to get a bit more diversity in leftist viewpoints on here. For all my disagreements with them I don't generally mind anarchists or even some of the more traditional MLs or Maoists, but I do have kind of a hard time with all the Deng fans.