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Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.

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IDe@sopuli.xyz
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There have been many right-wing exodus from reddit over the years. All of them have centered around a perceived “free speech” issue, and they have always flocked to the most promising alternatives (e.g. Voat). Obviously Lemmy with its origins was never seen as particularly appealing for that crowd. This time the issue just happened to touch the left-leaning part more.

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assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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Probably also explains why Lemmy is doing well.

Knock on wood, but Lemmy’s grown to the point now that it almost completely replaces Reddit for me. The only reason I still stop by Reddit is for more niche fandoms that haven’t taken off here quite yet.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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Yeah, there’s that one shitty instance pretty much everyone defederated from a week or two ago.

It’s actually one of the oldest instances, over a year old. Because the worst far right trolls that got ip banned from reddit came here when they couldn’t make a new account on reddit.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee
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I’m a right winger here for free speech reasons

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