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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well it small anr mostly made up of young techies. So yeah a left leaning bunch.

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[–] Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like there's a lot more queer focused instances available. Tbh that would most likely make it easier for queer people, and those more accepting of them, to easily and comfortably move to an instance.

ALSO, makes it that much easier to get banned if you're even slightly conservative imo. Imo we won't see many conservatives until we get a Steven Crowder or Daily Wire Instance.

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[–] partypoop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post 2016, the worldnews/geopolitics subs that I follow on reddit have become nonstop sinophobic and anti-China hate subs. Prior to 2016, there were a lot of complaining about Chinese tourists and kids that shit on the streets, but after Trump got elected the cold war rhetoric went into full effect.

This got worse during and after Covid19, especially in America, Canada, and parts of Europe.

The cold war propagandizing is just so incredibly prevalent on reddit. It's like people forgot what the cultural/business relationship between the US and China looked like prior to 2016.

[–] soviettaters@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're saying it's conservative for being anti-China? China may say it's Communist but any leftist is against the CCP.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

IDK, seems like European right wing is considered left wing in USA.

So for most Americans, most Europeans are left wing.

Maybe lemmy has more Europeans?

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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there's a wide range of people on Lemmy too but the extreme right and extreme left have ended up on instances that have been defederated from the main group. So what you're seeing are the sensible, rational people, and in America such people are considered left wing I guess 😉

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[–] gullible@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ultraconservatives already left for gab and truth social. There are some conservative instances and a few nazi ones as well, but the aforementioned two scooped up most of right wingers willing to jump ship.

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