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Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don't have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it's alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.

I've only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I've noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.

Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.

Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.

Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Although I'd say it generally skews to the political left, it's a mistake to think of the fediverse as a monoculture. Lemmy as an open source technology is politically neutral, as is ActivityPub as a federation protocol.

At the same time, there are a few hard left communist "tankie" servers, and the creators of Lemmy identify as Leninists, and these types of people tend to be blindly pro-China and pro-Russia.

Personally I do not view either China or Russia in a favorable light... Having said that, I'm not sure I view any country in a favorable light right now, aside from I guess Canada and I guess New Zealand.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Why should we restrict ourselves to countries? Let us take inspiration from societies such as the Rojava, the Zapatistas, and Christiana. Those are great and need support.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 4 months ago

Indeed. That would be far too reasonable though.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 months ago

Hungary has taken some big positive steps lately, which made me very happy for my european neighbors! It's not all doom and gloom. Armenia also kept their distance from the russians, much to my delight.