Depends, the average .world user is roughly equivalent to the average Reddit user. However I would say the average blahaj or db0 user is significantly further left.
Yeah the average blahaj user believes trans rights are human rights and that’s too much for some communities to handle
Ikr, some communities really do be saying “erm akshurally we need to compromise”. Mfr what? These are my basic human rights
A friend of mine always says “Averages are a poor measure of a population. For example: I have more than the average number of legs for a human.”
Yes. Like extremely
Before or after reddit started capitulating to fascists and mass bans?
Further weird, yes.
I just got banned for 7 days from Reddit for “threatening violence” for saying the Trump administration deserves the death penalty (which is an actual thing that exists legally in the US) and that the GOP should be dissolved.
A few days ago, an AskReddit thread led me to a group where men were promoting rape and violence against women. Reddit did not ban that.
You tell me.
EDIT: Something funny from the message they sent me: “Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for threatening violence against people or animals.” I wish they’d clarify whether it was people or animals that I threatened. It continues “Any communities or people that threaten violence towards an individual, group, animals, or place will be banned.” Not the one where a bunch of dudes were promoting rape, though.
Something similar happened to me like 2 - 3 days ago. I legit didn’t use it for over 2 years, and then a couple of months ago someone hacked the account and made it a porn thing. I didn’t want that associated to any email address that was mine, so I “re-claimed” the account, and removed all of the porn. I barely ever post on there, but I was drunk and said something along the lines of what you said in one of the leftish subreddits. I didn’t get banned, but I got a warning. Fuck that. Warn my nuts.
Funny, I saw a post on Reddit just yesterday from someone who got porn-hacked. Hackers are hornier than they used to be
Me, I wasn’t drunk. I was provoked. Pretty sure that legally I’m bulletproof given the circumstance (it was a reaction to far-right ragebait being on the White House website)
Well since reddit pretends to be far right (and full of bots which is another topic but also renders reddit fake & useless), and most of us are here because Reddit was intolerant of our defiance to adhere to its right-wingedness, yeah I’d say fediverse is left. We’re free people who refuse to have our free-thinking & free speech squashed.
The average reddit user is a bot
u/WordWord_1234 Usernames are sus af fuck
Can’t really judge an account by those generic usernames, because that’s the default format reddit generates unless a real human user decides to manually change it before locking it in.
That seems a lot like a reason to judge those accounts as not people? More than accounts that don’t match that format, anyway… Who uses an auto-generated username??
People can use auto-generated usernames if they want to. When I was new to Reddit, didn’t know I was allowed to change the username before it finalized.
Yes
Like, if I take a single user that I consider to exemplify each? Yes, the lemming will be left, socially and economically, of the redditor.
If we take a statistical average of each? The lemmy average will be screamingly farther left of the reddit average.
If we exclude bots and take the averages of only human users of each? Farther apart than the first but not nearly as far apart as the the second.
What am I basing this on? Multiple years of modding one of the larger not-explicity-political subs and also two explicitly political subs. So, vibes, basically, but lots of them over a long time.
Id agree. I spent around a decade on reddit and only about a month here. I think a big part of it is just the smaller user base on Lemmy. I’m personally a liberal but not a far left one. Noticing a particularly strong tilt here.
Significantly further left. Communists and anarchists barely exist on reddit while it also has some major right wing subs. Communists and anarchists are a prominant feature of lemmy while it contains almost 0 explicitly right wing communities of significance.
I did notice there are no conservative subs and the one labeled as such is clearly not. You’re right about the communist and anarchists too.
I’d say there’s a wider spectrum on reddit, if only because reddit is so much bigger. Lemmy is mostly center left while reddit goes everywhere.
Yeah that seems to be the case. If lemmy were larger it would probably have a wider variety. When conservatives get banned on reddit I think they go to Twitter or 4chan. Whereas liberals may flock here.
I actually don’t think so. Or at least not directly. Because I run into a veritable slew of Hardcore neoliberals as well. I think it’s less that there’s more leftists and it’s more that they’re not censored as much here. Sure the world mods will do their best, but they can always just create new accounts in different instances. They’re harder to shut down then they were on Reddit.
Course now that I say that I guess that just really means they are further left here because Reddit has moved so far to the right after expunging so many of the leftists. Potato potato.
Obviously you meant “poe-tae-toe poe-tah-toe”, but I initially just read this as “poe-tae-toe poe-tae-toe” and that was fabulous actually.
Bots included?
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