At this stage the whole Lemmy project feels like a CIA experiment, part of some as-of-yet unknown group of experiments / operation given a vague name. All the content is on the extremist-side, enforces attitudes perfect to embolden class wars and young people (no doubt the majority of people here) aren’t worldly enough to know the difference. It’s full of AI-generated political memes and comments.
Where’s the trove of knowledge? The awesome positive hobbies? If it’s around, it’s all drown out by the manipulative noise.
This could be easily fixed in the coding of Lemmy, but… it hasn’t.
I’m becoming very di-senlightened by Lemmy, Let the abuse and downvotes ensue.
The devs are communists.
Using Lemmy over Reddit is already an ideological choice for many of us, ergo you will find people with a stronger ideological backbone here.
Conditions in the English-Speaking world are getting more dire. The US Empire is struggling to prop itself up, billionaires control more and more of the wealth while working class folks control less and less, and more people are getting involved in reading theory and organizing.
Many leftist subreddits were shut down and fled to Lemmy, the same has not happened to the same degree for right-wing subreddits.
It’s as simple as that, really. I suggest you start reading some leftist theory, I made a Marxism-Leninism Beginner Reading List to help people who want to start doing that (comes with audiobook versions, too).
Also, your insinuation that those of us more politically active must be young and not worldly is infantilizing bullshit.
And yes, I know what community this is in, this is more for others to see if they genuinely have the same questions.
Ahh, spoken like a true unworldly young person. I hope you understand in twenty years.
Spoken like a teenager pretending to be an adult lol.
People with actual experience don’t assume someone’s disagreement means they are inexperienced. But assuming as much is a good indicator of someone being actually inexperienced, though.