It isn’t really surprising that a federated, FOSS alternative to Reddit and its enshittification has a lot of left-wingers, especially when it’s developed by communists.

The problem with your accusation is that it doesn’t hold water. Leftist instances are consistently more correct regarding political views. You can’t just say that Hexbear is wrong for having stances, you need to investigate the stances themselves.

Lemmy.world is highly political, just for liberalism, the standard in the western world.

Socialist countries have brought comprehensive democratization for society every time they have been established.

Lemmy.world promotes liberalism and liberal ideologies. It sounds like your issue isn’t with politics in the abstract, but instead with left wing politics in particular.

Bernie and AOC have not succeeded in meaningfully changing the system, though, so there’s no evidence that this is a “more powerful place.” Bernie and AOC are more establishment friendly and thus have people among the establishment platforming them, which defangs their allowed progressivism in order to keep them in the public eye. PSL actually stands to bring real change.

PJ complained to Rimu, so Rimu instance banned me from PieFed.social, and it seems Feddit.org and Lemmy.Blahaj.zone followed suit. Started from this, where I responded to some of PJ’s nonsense, then PJ made a string of MwoG posts about me. Really not worth anyone’s time to look into, but for those who want context here it is.

China has sovereignty over their internet infrastructure, that’s what the Great Firewall is for. The US Empire cannot do as it likes with China.

I’d say actual socialist orgs like PSL count far more as opposition. Bernie and AOC depend too heavily on the existing establishment, and thus are powerless against it, while PSL is steadily building a full alternative.

Thanks! I don’t think OP can see my comment to begin with, so that helps with visibility. Great expansion too!

Yep, Lemmy.ml isn’t actually something that can be categorized as “cleanly ML.”

Echoing Erika3sis’s great comment, Wikipedia represents the western viewpoint and consensus, not a global consensus and viewpoint, which leads it to being shaped by the institutions that have sway in the west.

To be fair, Lemmy.ml just has lots of MLs, Lemmygrad.ml is the actual ML instance. Also to be fair, many instances do have strong political views as a part of their identity.

PSL is trying to build that opposition party as we speak.

Everything is political, and Lemmy was made as an alternative to Reddit based on ideological reasoning in favor of FOSS and federation. Lemmy was made by communists, and there are a ton of us communists here as a consequence.

That’s not how any of this works.

Only the beginning, before we can abolish class distinctions and fully collectivize production and distribution globally.

Term limits also limit positive change. They are meant to prevent change in general.

To be clear, socialism retains administration and organization, it just gradually abolishes class divisions.

Oh silly me! /s