this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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I'm a bit of a Bernie bro but some of the communities on here aren't just left but like extreme left which is.. different for sure. They're at least more tolerable than the "We support free speech but not leftist speech" Republicans and the communities that are too much I can just block and never interact with. While I'm sure I'd still enjoy Reddit if I logged on or went back to the subs I used to be on, I refuse out of principle. I even feel gross when I need to visit subs to get niche tech answers. I won't ever trust Reddit again and we've got some solid meme communities here. It does enough for what it is, I only hope we grow as Reddit continues to burn.
Yup, agreed on most counts.
I consider myself a left leaning libertarian, and I generally feel more welcomed here than on Reddit. I still get lots of down votes for mentioning libertarianism (apparently that's associated with facism somehow? Not my fault right wing nutjobs tried to steal the term), but I at least get decent discussion about actual policies, especially when I'm left of both major parties. That was a bit more rare on Reddit.
But even if lemmy was actually way worse than Reddit, I'm not going back, that bridge has been burned. If I ever needed to leave lemmy, I would pour more time into my decentralized link aggregator project.