I don't like being labeled as a political side. I'm here because there is no ads and it's free and open source. If that is part of a political ideology, I am not attached to it. Lemmy is very left which is fine but sometimes it goes a little too left in some instances.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Tech-savvy people tend to trend left. And with the reddit exodus, only those that cared about API access and privacy left.
Yeah I dunno man. Ever since I made my account, half the posts I've seen have been complaining about whatever the hell tankies are, and almost all the rest are jokes about arch linux. The politics stuff seems more niche than just "left", but I haven't dug too deeply into it. There are other active communities if you dig around. Mostly I dig on star trek memes and programmer humor and it's a good time.
ActivityPub and most of its connecting software is open source, so naturally you'd get a lot of people who are drawn to that. If you'd draw a Venn diagram, then there would be simply quite a bit of overlap of left leaning people, techies, open source advocates, etc.
It's not totally leftist. I am most definitely a libertarian. I am interested in free and open source software, though, because I care about online privacy and self-sovereignty. I mean hell, even if you just look at my instance, I am on an instance about a particular cryptocurrency whose goal is financial privacy, which is a big middle finger fuck you to the government. They would like to know the consistency of your last bowel movement and I would rather them not know that.
If by "skew" you mean "bend over backwards", then "Yes".
I see a bit of everything on here, but I do like that voicing leftist ideals (not sure about left wing) doesn't get you shot down immediately from all sides (as it would in a lot of other places).
I imagine that in general leftists exist, but avoid posting in other places due to the abuse they'd receive for doing so.
tankies created lemmy to share with all leftists and it started moving to the right in the last wave of reddit changes.
Is that the case? I know tankies are behind Lemmy, but did they explicitly create it with the purpose of being shared with leftists?
They made it to do a praxis
Sometimes that's making a FOSS project, which shouldn't need an explanation besides the definition for why leftists would like it.
Sometimes that's so you can yell at shitlibs for being shit at being liberals. That's the fun part.