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This only applies to people left from centrism (progressivism, anarchism, socialism...). "Wokes", "liberals", "tankies", I'll put them all as leftists in this text.
Lemmy. That interest in politics and critical thinking in general end when we arrive to topics do not concerning the life of the average lemming.
News about technology? Oh, yes, capitalism is wrong and Google is ruining this and let's do that... Feminism? Meh. Antiracism. Anticolonialism. Humanities defense? Whatever.
Of course, why would women or POC or the third world or non-STEM things would interest a bunch of first world STEM white men? Empathy or congruence with leftism? What's that? (sarcasm)
And it's tiring that you see how much time they spend talking about U.S. politics or online privacy, but not a thought can be put when you point out a non-privileged problem. I've even seen people get downvoted for saying something they posted or said was problematic.
In my region, leftists often separate completely from these spaces because of this. I don't want to, I like it here and, overall, my experience is positive and enriching. But yeah, this is one of the worst aspects of Lemmy in my opinion.
Lemmy only exists because the people who were too much of an asshole for reddit (they got banned) decided to make themselves a place where they can't fully be banned. So, ya, there's still that core of the "I hate everything" asshats that can't be gotten rid of.
On the other hand, the huge influx of people that abandoned reddit for moral reasons or because they became a fascist propaganda machine are typically very liberal and open minded (woke). But I find that there's not much room to have nuanced discussions when every such conversation gets brigaded by the small group of haters and their army of alt accounts and bots.
I also have noticed a massive influx of paid shills here pushing divisiveness, "anarchy", violence, and "social tolerance" fatigue (they ostensibly are promoting social awareness and causes, but go out of their way to insult what is already a woke group). Unfortunately, this attack on social values works well when you have a group that hates everything already. People just aren't interested in nuanced discussions when any opinion they voice gets them attacked by what appears to be "both sides".
i have been on fedi for over two years and there has been a huge uptick in crazy bullshit since last summer, i think that was when there was a big reddit ban wave that drove lots of angry/violent people here.