There are various reasons Lemmy succeeded as a Reddit alternative where others failed. One of the underappreciated ones is probably that the devs were communists. I know that sounds a little strange
Marx to other Reddit alternatives: I fucking told you!
Especially after the tankie migration, there were definitely some people who saw the front page and clicked away.
[Y]ou would maybe see a text post of someone mocking western reporting on the Uyghur genocide.
There was one lemmy instance that ran on ideals of free speech. […] Honestly the owner, though definitely right wing, was a pretty chill guy, […] Kinda unfortunate the instance died, considering people still complain about lack of ideological diversity on Lemmy.
Written by a centrist