• rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    The tankies over on Lemmygrad and Hexbear (aka the Dessalines and people like him) have very much left (heh) a very sour taste in the mouths of many locals.

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      6 months ago

      Some Lemmy users are against leftism, sure, but the majority of Lemmy is Leftist leaning at minimum. That’s kind of the entire point of Lemmy’s structure, and the broader culture has morphed around that fact.

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        6 months ago

        If I had to guess, most Lemmites are socdems, not socialists.

        It is very easy to overestimate how common one’s own viewpoint is, especially when in a filter bubble.

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          6 months ago

          What makes you believe that to be the case? Lemmy.world is overwhelmingly liberal/socdem, but the broader Lemmyverse is Socialist leaning, whether Marxist or Anarchist.

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            6 months ago

            Lemmy has ~390k users. Just over 150k are on World. That’s almost 40%.

            Another ~50k are on NSFW, and can thus be assumed to not care. If we remove them from the equation, we get ~44% being on World.

            The third-most popular instance after World and NSFW is .ee. The people there are broadly progressive but usually not socialist. They have just under 29k.

            Do you see where I’m going with this?

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              6 months ago

              Have you done a poll of the percentages that identify as liberal vs socialist on these sites, or do you genuinely believe there are no Socialists on .world or .ee?

              Are these active users, or total users?

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                6 months ago

                I’m doing this on the digital equivalent of the back of a napkin. I have not done any surveys. This makes me curious though. Does Lemmy have polls?

                I believe that’s total users. We can also go with number of comments per week, according to Lemmyverse:

                World - 41,575

                .ee - 8,605

                NSFW - 820

                My own instance - 777

                Here we can also see our leftie friends starting to appear:

                Hexbear - 14,411

                db0 - 2,632

                Lemmygrad - 2,220

                SLRPNK - 1,435

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                  6 months ago

                  So you have a good amount, you’re still missing lemmy.ml, and are still assuming everyone on .ee or .world are not Socialist.

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                    I’m not assuming everyone there isn’t socialist. I assume that most aren’t, based on anecdotal experience.

                    For some reason lemmyverse, where I got the other stats, doesn’t mention .ml, though it mentions the Enterprise subdomain, which I hear of for the first time.

                    If you can find out the number of comments per week on .ml, I would be glad.