I can’t say I’ve been using Lemmy for long, but from the get-go it seems that the communities, memes, opinions that get upvoted seem to reflect left-wing ideas.

I’m certainly not complaining, it honestly feels like a breathe of fresh air compared to other social media sites that seem to shift further and further to the far right, though I am curious to hear why this might be the case? Does FOSS tend to attract more left-wing minded people, or does this just happen to be a broadly left-wing microcosm/bubble?

Hope you all have a great day.

  • shortwavesurferEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It’s not totally leftist. I am most definitely a libertarian. I am interested in free and open source software, though, because I care about online privacy and self-sovereignty. I mean hell, even if you just look at my instance, I am on an instance about a particular cryptocurrency whose goal is financial privacy, which is a big middle finger fuck you to the government. They would like to know the consistency of your last bowel movement and I would rather them not know that.