I think it has more to do with them being Marxist Leninists which is really problematic to a lot of people. You should go check it out and see for yourself what the posts look like.
ratboy
joined 1 year ago
My whole experience of moving to lemmy has felt like when people from another state move to a new one and complain about how awful it is and force it to change into where they left. If people are so absplutely offended by the politics of its originators, go create your own social media and stop harassing the poor mods, especially if the mods of this particular instance are trying to make your experience more palatable.
Hello I'm a nonbinary/masc leaning lil guy. I work with high risk populations at a non profit in the pnw. Feels weird to not be a programmer or something, seems that's what all the bee-hawers and fediverse users are into these days. Um, I'm autistic and have adhd, in my mid 30s, like to ride my bike, play pikmin bloom, garden, and take up hobbies quickly and then leave them for like 3 years. Oh I am also a really yuge music nerd, like, actually. Mmmmmmmyeap
It was recommended to me over Reddit as well. As I said in another comment, I've dabbled with Mastodon as well but I think I may like Lemmy more
I started using Mastodon a couple if years ago; didn't stay for long but it definitely felt more...friendly than Reddit, or personal I suppose. Glad I found Lemmy though I love the message board/forum format way better than a Twitter like format that Mastodon seems to have, though I do like both
Honestly I'm pretty much on the same boat as you and I feel like the frenzy is overblown, especially right now with the huge influx of people from a platform that by and large has some pretty lib takes. Some examples that people have given are their unwavering support of China, Russia, North Korea and denial about tianenman Square. I kinda side eye people who don't have nuanced takes about North Korea or any of those places for that matter. I am also hard pressed to think that people eho specifically identify as ML's wouldnt do their research, but of course there are all kinds. I am curious what specifically has been done and said that warrants hate speech on there to make it such a big deal. But yeah it's not like people are screaming "LETS GENOCIDE PEOPLE!!!". Idk I find it troublesome that people are coming here having no idea about these concepts and are just told "they spew hate speech". Because most people are probably thinking that they're over there thinking about how to advance the white race and throwing around the F slur, which is not what's going on.