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Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ferallettuce@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

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[–] SolarNialamide@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Left vs right is literally the same thing as down vs up.

[–] ConfusedLlama@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way I see it, is that they are not exactly the same, but there seems to be a greater tendency in the "up-directed" people to be also right-leaning, also a greater tendency in the "down-directed" people to be also left-leaning, which makes sense, since many elements in those pairs of tendencies/ideologies almost line up, or are at least very compatible.

However, there IS also right libertarianism, and left authoritarianism, but those seem to be less probable than the opposites.

Take a look at the Political Compass mappings of famous politicians and political parties in different parts of the world: The up-right and down-left quadrants are almost always the most populous, while there are dots in the other two quadrants.

(See the "Elections" section on the left column, click on several elections in different locations.)

[–] sethw@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they dont mean up down on the political compass, they mean working class vs owning class

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More poor people vote for Republicans than Democrats. So are the oppressed on the right, and the "owners" on the left?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why do you say that?

Pew certainly disagrees.

[–] ConfusedLlama@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, my misunderstanding, then. Thanks for the correction :)