Ask Lemmy

From what I've seen Lemmy is pro-EU, pro-privacy, pro-Linux, very left-leaning, anti-capitalism, and strongly anti-AI.

I'll go first.

• I think there is a strong pro-Linux bias. It wouldn't surprise me if 40+% use it on here.
• People from the US seem over-represented, but less so compared to Reddit
• There is a far stronger anti-capitalist sentiment on here than other social media
• The average age seems to be much higher. I joined when I was 16 and feel quite young unlike on other social media.

Already mentioned was the pro Linux and everything else sucks. Also, the Nintendo hate.

What I haven't seen is the high acceptance/love of furry content. I didn't know people could draw animals that hot. Not that it awakened anything in me.

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Left-Wing

Anti-AI

Tech People

Anti Capitalism

Coming from someone left wing, messing with tech since I was a kid, terrified of late stage capitalism, and who hates Sam Altman's lying, con artist guts even more than I hate Musk.

But… jeez. I’m like a far right tech bro on Lemmy.

Most of Lemmy is anti-AI, especially generative AI.

American bias, millennial bias, left wing bias

For as politically Left as Lemmy tends to run there still seems to be a high level of mysoginy.

Lemmy is not neurotypical and it shows up with various discussions. Discussions here tend to assume autism or AuDHD as typical behavior, when it is only typical for the group of people assembled here.

Two things that I haven't seen yet.

• Much higher general tech and math/stats literacy than other spaces on the internet

• An overwhelming hatred for Nintendo when most of the rest of the internet swallows their boot in order to play their new games because let's face it, they make some of the most well-polished 3D platformers.

People before profit.

Cities should be walkable

AI as we know it was unethically developed and is more marketing than solution.

Trans rights are human rights. Even more, gender is a spectrum, so everyone really, is a tiny bit trans.

Fuck Israel.

Punch fascists.

Instant nudeln eignen gut für MaiMais

All capitalism is bad, and any attempt to rein it in is failure before any attempts.

Linux/SteamDeck = Good Anything else = bad

Porn games should be available for all, but GOG sucks because they did something shitty years ago.

The only thing worse than a right winger is the wrong kind of leftist. (I feel this is a global thing not only US)

World == USA

Incredible US bias here to the point where many discussions completely ignore the existence of the rest of the world.

Lemmy is actually worse than reddit here. The only network that at least tries to be cosmopolitan is Mastodon and that's why it just feels so much healthier there.

Lemmy prefers Star Trek over Star Wars.

Clearly a severe leftist bias. Not just in the context of US politics.

It is very left, sometimes infuriatingly so when the people here defend autocratic countries such as Iran.

Nintendo is worse than EA, Activision, Konami, Ubisoft, Epic, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Nestle, and the IDF combined.

There may be some things they do that annoy me, but there also a lot of things they do that I like, and I don't think they're anywhere near the worst in the industry right now. It is just so very tiring that it is seemingly impossible to discuss anything related to Nintendo at all without threads immediately devolving into a circlejerk about how much some of y'all hate anyone who dares to even enjoy their games.

This probably sounds like a dodge of an answer, but...

It depends on the Lemmy instance. Some are anarchistic, some are very left wing anti-establishment, some are hardcore tankies, and I've heard somewhere there's a right-wing instance? Some hate certain technologies, some love those technologies, etc.

I don't think it's realistic to lump all Lemmy instances (and users) together under a single ideological umbrella. That's like lumping everyone from America or any other county together for their opinions.

IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.

The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.

On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.

• anti religion.
• full of leftists or liberals
• people are more concious about their personal data.

I've run into:

• Pro-liberalism
• Pro-LGBTQ+
• Pro-Linux
• Pro-Communism/Socialism
• Pro-Agnostic
• Pro-Indie(movie and video games)
• Pro-Body Autonomy
• PC Master Race

Thinking we're better than everyone who's still on Reddit

Most folks here seem to lean to a moderate left also, Conservatives are apparently grouped in with Republicans an MAGA.

While it’s nice to see the community grow there really isn’t any diversity, for lack of a better word, in the political discussions made here.