Why is the solarpunk memes community on this instance filled with such massively anti-left folks?

  • socsa@piefed.social
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    9 months ago

    If I had to wager a guess, it likely more of a backlash against .ml and hexbear more than anything, which are unfortunately the main ambassadors of “leftist” ideology on the fediverse. These instances legitimately make leftists look bad, to the point where it actually feels like it has come all the way back around as self parody.

    • BlackDragon@slrpnk.net
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      9 months ago

      Hexbear is good and most of the negative things people have to say about it are completely made up

      • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netM
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        9 months ago

        It’s super rare to have a pleasant interaction with hexbear users. And I think thats something they are proud of. To me this just really sad, because how exactly are you spreading your propaganda effectively when everyone just thinks you are annoying?

        Also on hexbear users of other instances or other instances as a whole get heavily misrepresented and there seems to be no good faith when interacting with other communities that are not closely aligned in their political stance. (Of course hexbear itself also suffers from lots of misrepresentation, which probably contributes a lot to their in group / out group thinking)

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        9 months ago

        Idk about completely. They’ll just straight up slobber on Putin’s knob and it simply doesn’t make sense without the community being compromised by a troll farm somewhere.

        Xi at least has some deniability to his fascism and a hope of Da Revolushion turning a corner at some point. Putin’s literally just a fascist invading his neighbors out of rank imperialism.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    It’s one of the more popular communities on the instance, and has a lot of subscribers from other instances, which brings with it a range of political opinions. As long as those opinions aren’t breaking the instance rules, moderation of our communities is at the moderator’s discretion.