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I am not criticizing them, I'm just out of the loop.

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

I would expect it's due to suppression on mainstream platforms.

And unlike hate-based subcultures like you find in conservatism or disgust-based subcultures present in traditionalist circles which require some ~~targets to criticize~~ hosts to sink their mandibles into and suck the blood out of, the LGBTQIA+, Anti-capitalist, Furry, Weeb, etc subcultures are quite happy existing without the presence of bigots, corpo-simps, or chuds in general.

[–] gon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IDK, I see tons of left and trans content on YT and Twitter, for example. That is because that's the type of content I like, and the type of people I follow. I suspect what you're noticing isn't so much the presence of communism and trans people, but the absence of dumb shit.

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[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I blocked the blahaj (nothing against trans people. "Communities" based on sex/gender-stuff is just cringe) and lemmygrad (plus other tankie) instances. Now I barely see any of it.

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[–] aloeha@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Not sure about transgender posts, but the communist posts are probably because other platforms are owned by huge corporations, and huge corporations generally don't like communism. Lemmy can never be bought by a huge corporation (at least not entirely).

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just block commie groups as they turn up and thus never see their content. Ezpz.

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[–] Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Idk but I mostly block all communities involving the former (but the latter doesn’t bother me at all). I don’t use lemmy to argue politics or first world problems, especially with people who are often incredibly hostile to dissent. I use it to post pictures of my beautiful home state and talk about gaming

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Lemmy is a free open source software project. People into FOSS like the idea of something being built by a community to the benefit of everyone and not being controlled by any one person or company who could seek to benfit only themselves. It makes sense that their political ideology mirrors that.

FOSS and just programming and tech in general have an unusually large number of trans people. I'm going to be honest, I'm not exactly sure why. I can only assume because programmers are judged based on their code and not their appearance.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus's fuck I hope I'm never judged on my code.

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[–] BadRS@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

All the bootlickers are still chillin with spez

[–] macallik@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

There's a general selection bias in the fediverse, and the idea of decentralizing power is pretty communistic and also pretty beneficial to people who feel oppressed (transgenders).

Most new waves have a strong bias when you think about it. For example, crypto has a strong tilt towards Libertarianism and deregulation

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