Unfortunately it seems really common for any new social media platform to lean way too hard into wither the far left or right, instead of finding a middle ground where a wider range of political views can coexist.

But hey, if we had to pick one extreme, then far left is a lot better than the far right nazi apps that crop up a lot.

It seems like FOSS apps just appeal more to the far left than any other political group. And that's coherent with all their other beliefs so it's only logical. The same thing happens on Mastodon, though it's less extreme. Could find some accounts of regional branches of the major left-wing party in my country, none center or right-wing.

Hi! I'm a dirty communist from a dirty communist instance. Consider that these things aren't circlejerks, consider instead that generally we have the opinions that we do for a reason and when we discuss things, it might be a good faith discussion but your guard may (possibly for warranted reasons) be up. Please grant us the faith that it's not a circlejerk. I'm also open to answering any questions that might alleviate your (or anyone else reading's) notions that we are a circlejerk.

I'm going to remove this thread under rule #2. The topic is inherently political and some of the comments are getting rough.

Go to 4chan troll.

exploding-heads is this way, and truth social is that way, sir

Let me guess, you are a centrist who leans left on the softball social issues, but conservative in the fiscal ones.

You can change what instance you use to one that defederates with the places you don't want to participate with. Also, some apps allow you to hide specific instances through a UI option.

Just unsubscribe / block those communities and posters.

I do it for all political content.

Can you give some examples? Different people have very different definitions of leftists, communists etc.

I swapped instances a couple of times because of federation with political instances. Highly recommend it.

Im seeing this stuff just now. The timing of the posts is the same as the system compromise over the last 8 hours. My instinct says they are related.

While I don’t agree with either extremes, I’m much more comfortable with hard left than hard right. Hard left isn’t actively established and trying to foment genocide in real time.

Yep, noticed that

GOP is busy listening to pod casts that's how they get all their information. They only know how to use their phones so it makes sense that they can't actually explore the web and open their minds.

Hence letting the religious fruitcakes take over and continue to push wild conspiracy theories and ignore science as their main party platform.

What you are seeing is literally because the people you identify with are mostly fucking idiots. You should be so proud!