My thought on why you see more communists, anarchists, and leftists in general in open source and federated platforms is that efforts centered around collaboration are likely to draw people who are more collaborative-minded.

Part of it is the fact that the more right-wing instances end up full of nasty hateful shit which results in everybody else defederating from them - just look at Exploding Heads where two of the posts on their front page are “I absolutely hate fat people” and “I support Trump because if he wins there will be mass suicides”; not exactly the kind of content most users want to engage with!

I personally like it

This software was made by commies. You are welcome :)

because we don’t take it in the ass from big tech here. One might say we’ve seized the means of social media

I’m not sure if you’re aware but “commie” is a derogatory term … if you didn’t know that it’s fine. Now you do.

If you did know that and you’re intending to be derogatory then go fuck yourself.

How do you know they’re Communists/Marxists? I mean yeah, I noticed something might be the case, but I wouldn’t assume it’s because they’re Communists/Marxists. Not that I would mind (even though I’m not a Communist/Marxist), just being a Communist/Marxist alone is not a big deal (as opposed to being someone who fits the stereotypes of one).

I will say though I do have a friend who identifies that way who I recommended to this place. She has been struggling and I thought it would be a good gesture.

Takes one to know one.

You say, on the original server which isn’t .ml because of a connection to Mali (it’s Marxist-Leninist).

1. Tankies made the software.

2. Conservatives left Reddit after The Donald got banned, and the bulk of the users on Lemmy came from Reddit.

3. Libertarians are busy arguing over New Hampshire’s twitter.