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  • jumjummy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I feel like Lemmy has WAY more crazy political views, like extreme leftist and BoTh SiDeS people. That’s probably more of a symptom of Russian propoganda across the wider Internet that wasn’t as prevalent 10+ years ago.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      We barely talked about politics at all back when the great Digg migration happened. People were interested in far more fun things back then.

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        5 months ago

        Hmmmm, I remember heaps of people being into Ron Paul because he wanted to legalise weed, and Bernie is a perennial favourite

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      5 months ago

      This also depends on what instances your instance federates with though. You could go to an instance that defederates from the more politically extreme instances.

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        5 months ago

        I think it also depends on what communities you interact with.

        I got fed up with it in the Lemmy.world news community and unsubscribed. I’ve been much happier following that change.

        There are still some leftist and both sides hot takes I run into … but it’s a much more acceptable pacing now.