[croutonwagon]

My account on Reddit is 17 years old.

I’ve been on lemmy for a couple days. I’m still very unsure about it. It’s not the technical changes of being federated, those didn’t take too much effort even for me with no experience with mastodon etc.

It’s more the underlying politics that are jarring. The lead dev uses Castro as his picture and the other founder has mao on his personal page masthead. There’s a VERY prevalent anti western sentiment and even reccomending things like podcasts that use western viewpoints are downvoted hard. And I haven’t even been to their “communist” instance.

The read I get is it’s got a lot of communism/socialism ideologues that have never lived under the thumb of the regimes they are advocating.

Even on some of the inclusive specific ideas instances like beehaw, a prevalent reasoning is if your instance doesn’t defederate/block other instances unaligned with xyz, it means you aren’t dedicated to making a safe space and thus should be defederated too. It’s a dangerous game if that plays out on the larger more popular instances.

It just feels off and as if I’m an outsider or unwelcome at best. Unsure if I will stick around. It’s not nearly same as the early Reddit days and especially the pre-digg migrations (and there were a couple)

I also made sure to register to one that doesn’t profess any political leaning. But still, unsure given the overall vibe.

[local_crmdgeon]

I yearn for the day when Communists are seen the same way as (normal) people see Nazis. The European mass death counts are similar, without counting the Asian atrocities of the Great Leap Forward, Khmer Rouge, etc.

The Swastika and the Hammer and Sickle both represent bankrupt ideologies. I would use a Communist website just as soon as I would use a Nazi website.

I assume that's not going to be a popular opinion on the modern internet though.

[croutonwagon]

I dont really have an issue with ones political leanings. On that site or otherwise. No doubt I have conversed and even debated with some that are Communist or Socialist, both on the internet and in real life. I was just in Vietnam for 3 weeks with one of my good friends who has a LOT of family over there and some of them, many of them embrace socialism. Talking to many of those folks over drinks was very interesting.

Its when it becomes a core portion of your identity and you are throwing it others faces or using it as a pedestal for elitism that it rubs me wrong. And that is the feeling I get on that site. Heck they even had a thread on the very topic the other day [1]

Again I am not saying its bad. Just it gives a very weird vibe and it will depend on how the new users play into that and affect it.

[1]: https://beehaw.org/post/443376?scrollToComments=true