Edit - I said “site” because I didn’t know how to even describe whatever this is
Mostly just liberal/social democrat with a sizeable and vocal minority of socialists and communists.
Generally, the American vision of “left”, or European center and left.
Lemmy’s core development team are communists, of a very bizarre and inconsistent type that is openly or semi-openly in favor of massive command-economy-capitalist countries like China and Russia even when they are engaged in imperialist conduct. They’re weird. Idk what’s up with it. A lot of the core historical instances still have that mindset and are sometimes so obnoxious about demanding that everyone else needs to also that they are banned from the more recent more mainstream-thinking instances.
Generalizations are tough but I think it’s safe to say that 90% of everyone else on Lemmy is some variety of vague-leftist roughly in the mold of Bernie Sanders, which depending on your personal Overton window you may define anywhere from “disgusting liberal who betrayed the movement by voting for Kamala Harris” to “Communist.”
Hope this helps
The only sane reply in the comment section… thanks bro
You asked a ridiculous question, so 🤣yeah, play stupid games, win stupid prizes boss
Later on I got many same comments… y’all wanna argue everywhere don’t you?
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
There’s a pinned post on the first community that can answer your question
We’re an anarcho-syndicalist community. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.
Strange developers lying on GitHub distributing software is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical coding ceremony.
Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!
I mean, if I went around sayin’ it was a pinko site just because some trippin coder had lobbed federation at it, they’d put me away!
I don’t even know if you’re trolling or you’re serious
Not trolling, probably just too old for you. This is a Monty Python reference :)
It’s neither communist nor a site.
I think the reason you dont understand many comments in this thread is because you dont seem to know what a “communist” it. People are answering your question based on the official definition, but you are going by a gut feeling that probably springs form propaganda and biases in your community. I encourage you to read up on communism if you really want to know.
If youre just here to pick fights with no knowledge to back up your claims, youre on the right track.Lemmy is a piece of software. Its two main developers are communists. The software runs on many different servers (instances) that are mostly not communist and the two developers do not enforce any political ideology on the use or users of Lemmy (and couldn’t even if they wanted to, which they clearly don’t). There are two or three instances that are communist.
That said, if you’re from the USA I’d hazard a guess that the word ‘commie’ to you is probably a person slightly to the left of Bill Clinton. At the moment, the entirety of Lemmy does lean slightly left and is generally progressive which is a refreshing change to the constant brain numbing right wing shitholes most mainstream social media sites are.
I’d urge you to not go looking for a fight. Just ignore, block and move on. This isn’t reddit.
I’m from India and the word “commie” in my country is referred as a far left, anti nationalist person (because indian commies are usually anti national).
I’d urge you to not go looking for a fight. Just ignore, block and move on. This isn’t reddit.
Why? Do they ban you if you fight like a redditor in the comments? Like how reddit straight up bans your IP nowadays (I’m new here)
Btw thanks for your comment
“I’m from India and the word “commie” in my country is referred as a far left,”
Communism is its own thing. Whilst its not exactly inaccurate to describe it as far left, there are also lots of far left people who are not Communists.
“Why? Do they ban you if you fight like a redditor in the comments?”
That depends on the Community (subreddit) you’re in and the instance you’re using. They might, they might not. But the reason I said it is because people joining Lemmy solely in order to get into fights with people is not what Lemmy needs.
Where in India are you from?
Northeast. Why?
Just curious because in the south there are states which have communist governments/large communist parties.
Why do you call communists “commies”?
Is it a derisive term where you’re from?
Why do you call communists “commies”?
The word is mostly used by the GenZ and millennials. They definitely took it from the American slang but usually we use it to refer to the communists of India who are usually liberal extremist and anti nationalist
I don’t know how accepted it is to use the term in the US but in here people say it in public openly
Is it a derisive term where you’re from?
If you mean mocking, then yeah. It is used to mock
in the south there are states which have communist governments/large communist parties
The communist part of india (CPM) started from the eastern part of the country, West Bengal to be specific (which was the most progressive state back then), but when the party came to power it destroyed the state. Kolkata which was a cosmopolitan city both before and after the British colonial era, CPM destroyed every part of that city. Be it business, infra, culture, people everything. And again they were anti nationalist
Are you a nationalist?
Nationalist yeah. But not an extremist for that
For context-
If I say I’m a nationalist in India, people would assume I support the current government. But I don’t prefer any political party of india because no one is trying fix the real issues. I just vote for the current govt because the opposition is being handled by restarted guy, Rahul Gandhi to be specific
Lemmy isn’t a site at all. It’s a piece of software.
No, Lemmy is the software. How can software be “communist”? How does it own the means of production" ? Seems an odd question.
You can have instances that are run by folks that have a communist bent (thank goodess for that) or instances run by all sorts of folks and instances federate and talk to each other (and can be blocked) but that’s a separate thing.
Seems an odd question
I meant are the people in Lemmy communist in general
No, there are a lot of us who are quite left-leaning but abhor tankie-style communism. I’m personally more democratic socialist, though living in a country like Australia means that’s not just a pipe-dream.
There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.
A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.
Damn! I have started loving this place more 😂
It’s gonna be fun arguing with commies
Niether.
Lemmy is the frontman for Mötorhead.
You’ll need to be more specific I’m afraid. Lemmy isn’t a single site, but rather a bunch of sites all talking to one another in the same “language”.
Is your homeserver, lemm.ee communist? No clue. I do know lemmygrad.ml is. My homeserver, lemmy.sdf.org, leans from libertarian to liberal to marxist depending on the particular subject or user.
Each cat their own rat.
Yes in the sense that mostly the communists inhabit it. No in the sense that, because it is decentralised, no one can force you do to a particular thing if you host your own instance
So in that way if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
I’m new here so I don’t know much about these
if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
Yes. You can always create a new account on a different instance.
Think of federated services (namely lemmy) like a phone carrier. There’s a bunch of them, and you can call numbers on other networks easily, as they speak a common protocol. You (or your carrier) can always block either individual numbers, or entire carries. The thing here is, being a carrier (an instance) of lemmy is somewhat easy to do, and you can always switch carriers based on their moderation policies.
Hope this is a decent explanation.
That’s a good explanation… Thanks for that
Also, tip, pretty sure that in the default web interface there is a toggle to deactivate bot posts. These bots are often just reposting what is on Reddit to try to stuff lemmy with content, but I tend to leave them deactivated. Also, never forget that the best thing after staying in a pit like this, is to touch a bit of grass ;P
Lemmy is a federated platform, not a single website, nor a single community.
Yeah, but only the good kind.
I guess I’m the one only getting the bad apples
Well, you’ve only been here a day. Give it time.
