What actually dominates Lemmy are groups of people that value bottom-up organizational structures, decentralization, FOSS, and other general structural decisions made with creating Lemmy. This leaves people that like these principles, and actually care enough to move to an instance despite mass adoption of a more top-down, Capitalist site like Reddit.

[–] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Well said!

[–] Gorilladrums@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Decentralization isn't left wing or right wing, that's just a moronic analysis. Decentralization has a wide appeal but unless it gets simplified and standardized it will never become adopted by the mainstream. Places like Lemmy which are littered with gatekeepers like you doom this place to forever being a niche. If this place ever hopes of rivaling reddit, it needs to appeal to more than political extremists and tech nerds

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Decentralization is far more left than it is right, hence why Lemmy has a ton of leftists. It wasn't just chance.