I was going to question what makes you think they’re far right but
If their experience is anything like mine, it’s populated by mostly far left wing Americans who were banned from Reddit for being too extreme.
Where are the centrist and right leaning spaces? As far as I can tell, they’re almost completely empty.
I agree, Reddit is massively extreme left politic trolls. The ones that have left reddit for lemmy because of corporealism is even further down that rabbit hole. Honestly social media is just a political psyop at this point.
😐 God, i remember why i left reddit now. It’s just a circlejerk of racists thinking they’re “progressive”
“Social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism” - Happybadger, 2025
They didn’t specify Hexbear or Lemmygrad by name which is the normal course for a radlib from somewhere like lemmy.world when they’re making this kind of post. That to me says they didn’t join an instance like mine where there’s an actual culture of left purity testing. I can all but guarantee they joined lemmy.ml, .world, or one of the other instances that are about as liberal as bluesky and actively recruited during the IPO-era reddit exodus. Reddit is so obscenely reactionary/libertarian that they’d be culture shocked by a lemmy instance where they can’t openly say the most antisocial thing you’ve heard this week and get a little trophy for it.
If anyone says that the general fediverse feed is too radical for them, it’s on them to disprove they’re a Nazi. They might not even consciously consider themselves a Nazi, but they’re going down some pewdiepipeline. The general fediverse feed, and most of the content you’d see on an explicitly radical instance like mine, is so benign if not milquetoast liberal that you shouldn’t feel this kind of opposition to it. Nothing about the instances I generally disagree with would make me want to go back to reddit on a new account. To feel ideological solidarity with but not any part of the fediverse is a huge red flag.
I genuinely don’t have a clue what “extremist content” (in terms of mainstream instances) they’re talking about. If fucking .world is “radical” to you i don’t want to see your opinions on a bad day lol.
The worst part is they’re flooding lemmy now, i’ve noticed an uptick in racism (admin, so i see most reports) and it’s pretty fucking disappointing. I left reddit due to racism against arabs and non-westerners in general, and those idiots want to come here? Fuck, lemmy isn’t perfect but way better than those scumbags.
It really has been noticable that they are everywhere now. I see them mostly from .world and SJW. The ones on DB0 are so confusing to me though because it is explicitly anarchist.
That’s from a good video essay about how people are radicalised toward fascism through communities that normalise racist jokes. He was really vindicated with the rise of streamer fascism. That same basic model applies to a website like reddit or twitter where a right-wing audience and algorithm reward you for becoming more right-wing.
Poor Nazi. Hopefully they felt really unwelcome and unsafe.
I was going to question what makes you think they’re far right but
😐 God, i remember why i left reddit now. It’s just a circlejerk of racists thinking they’re “progressive”
haha oh no what a shame
“Social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism” - Happybadger, 2025
They didn’t specify Hexbear or Lemmygrad by name which is the normal course for a radlib from somewhere like lemmy.world when they’re making this kind of post. That to me says they didn’t join an instance like mine where there’s an actual culture of left purity testing. I can all but guarantee they joined lemmy.ml, .world, or one of the other instances that are about as liberal as bluesky and actively recruited during the IPO-era reddit exodus. Reddit is so obscenely reactionary/libertarian that they’d be culture shocked by a lemmy instance where they can’t openly say the most antisocial thing you’ve heard this week and get a little trophy for it.
If anyone says that the general fediverse feed is too radical for them, it’s on them to disprove they’re a Nazi. They might not even consciously consider themselves a Nazi, but they’re going down some pewdiepipeline. The general fediverse feed, and most of the content you’d see on an explicitly radical instance like mine, is so benign if not milquetoast liberal that you shouldn’t feel this kind of opposition to it. Nothing about the instances I generally disagree with would make me want to go back to reddit on a new account. To feel ideological solidarity with
but not any part of the fediverse is a huge red flag.
I genuinely don’t have a clue what “extremist content” (in terms of mainstream instances) they’re talking about. If fucking .world is “radical” to you i don’t want to see your opinions on a bad day lol.
The worst part is they’re flooding lemmy now, i’ve noticed an uptick in racism (admin, so i see most reports) and it’s pretty fucking disappointing. I left reddit due to racism against arabs and non-westerners in general, and those idiots want to come here? Fuck, lemmy isn’t perfect but way better than those scumbags.
It really has been noticable that they are everywhere now. I see them mostly from .world and SJW. The ones on DB0 are so confusing to me though because it is explicitly anarchist.
Your post was enjoyable for me to read and this …
Never seen this before. Thanks for being it to my attention if you invented this i actually love you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
That’s from a good video essay about how people are radicalised toward fascism through communities that normalise racist jokes. He was really vindicated with the rise of streamer fascism. That same basic model applies to a website like reddit or twitter where a right-wing audience and algorithm reward you for becoming more right-wing.