I like a lot of the communities on that instance, but every once in a while I just get hit with a random wave of toxicity by them for no reason. For example, there was a post asking which communities from Reddit do you wish existed on Lemmy, and I answered honestly saying more car related communities as they are one of my hobbies, and I got severely downvoted and got replied to with “there is a FuckCars community” There are other times in the past where something similar happened in a lemmy.ml community, where I said something that was 100% non-offensive, non-argumentative, and non-political but got mass down voted for no reason. I have not had this problem anywhere else however. Does anyone else have a similar experience or no?

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    It seems like a lot of Lemmy users are slightly radical american “leftists”. This is an example of this on Lemmy.world. It seems that some users see Lemmy as a forum for politicly “left”-leaning americans, not a general purpose forum. Maybe some people prefer an echo chamber?

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      Fediverse can be confusing. But your link appears to be a post on [email protected] not world.

      Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, as well as the Lemmy software stack were started by leninists after getting pushed off reddit. If you don’t like it. And even as a leftist I can understand that. Since leninists tend to be blind, dogmatic, and somehow more authoritarian than a large chunk of capitalists. Block and avoid the domain. If you wander into their domain and push back. Be prepared for toxicity. Just like you yourself would likely give if they wandered into your areas and admonished you.

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      “slightly”.

      That’s being very nice. The correct word would be anarchist.

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        They’re definitely far left, but they’re definitely not anarchists. Most of them are just keyboard warriors hiding behind anonymity and would cry if someone approached them in real life about any of their comments on here.

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        I haven’t seen a single anarchist on Lemmy. Not even one.

        The most obvious group, and the one this thread is about, is about as far as it’s possible to get from being anarchists.

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          “eat the rich” “destroy the institutions”

          Etc… That’s not left. Insinuating killing it destroying societies is, by definition, anarchist.

          Socialism, Communism are about change, not control or jealousy.

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            No - anarchism, by definition, is the complete absence of institutionalized authority.

            Those around here who are calling for the destruction of institutions have no intention of creating a society free from the hierarchy of authority - they want to destroy the current authority merely so that they can replace it with their own.

            Again, they’re about as far as it’s possible to get from being anarchists. They’re as authoritarian as fascists - they just have a different set of norms they want to forcibly impose, and a different set of people they’re eager to oppress and murder along the way.

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      Some lemmy instances are explicitly leftist and that’s something we all just need to accept. You can block those instances or you interact with them, but it’s not anyone’s place to tell an instance how to do things on their own server. There are general purpose instances as well.

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          The far left majority on here truly believe Reddit is right leaning 😂. Despite site wide banning anyone who dares to question the far left ideologies, they’re far right apparently.

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      This is especially true for lemmy.ml. Political arguments and circlejerking sometimes start in completely unrelated topics and comments literally saying that every right winger is a fascist get lots of upvotes. It’s like a distilled version of some far left subreddits.

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      I hate the political landscape on Lemmy. The fact that their are people who are unironically communists shows the lack of political maturity in those groups