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It's worse than reddit. The devs themselves are unironically communists. I'm not joking or exaggerating, they actually called themselves communists. https://lemmy.ml/post/55143
I like the software and the libertarian bent, but my god the politics here are trash and very one-note outside of this sub.
Wow - that is pretty extreme. That doesn't totally surprise me though - FOSS is also very leftwing and it seems to apply to most of the tech communities. Not sure why - maybe they see the whole world as a huge algorithm and that inequality is a bug that can and must be fixed (top down approach). Unfortunately the world isn't predictable and human nature isn't compatible with communism and only societies that thrive due to capitalism can absorb some socialism. I don't know any poor society that used socialism to get itself out of poverty. It is always capitalism that does the trick.
FOSS has a lot of leftwing advocates because it distributes the means of (software) production. The initial idea was inspired by Communism. Lemmy has a lot of FOSS people in the tech communities so you see the spillover there. You're possibly more used to seeing the Silicon Valley type of tech people who are right wing if not anarchnocapitalists.
I've been a GNU/Linux user for decades. I know RMS but I don't think he is or ever was a communist. He isn't against capitalism and is fine with people making money of free software. He stepped out of FOSS and I haven't followed what's currently going on though. Most tech I find interesting is decentralized, private and open source. You might be right that on the closed software side they are more right wing.
Lemmy is nice. Software itself doesn't have a political view and it doesn't seem to care who is using it ๐