Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (
It is a little weird that everyone here seems to be a communist. Does the platform attract the mindset or does the mindset gravitate to the platform? Just something I’ve noticed…
It’s a bit of both, but it’s also instance specific. Most of it comes from lemmygrad, because there is a lot of cross federation between users and groups on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. On a smaller instance without much interaction with lemmygrad, you won’t see the same scenario
It is a little weird that everyone here seems to be a communist. Does the platform attract the mindset or does the mindset gravitate to the platform? Just something I’ve noticed…
It’s a bit of both, but it’s also instance specific. Most of it comes from lemmygrad, because there is a lot of cross federation between users and groups on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. On a smaller instance without much interaction with lemmygrad, you won’t see the same scenario
@goryramsy @koncertejo Where’s here? Maybe you’re just in the instance.
Yeah, being more politically neutral would be a big advantage, i guess being smaller means more radical people tend to be here