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I dont think that is the case. Left leaning people are just much less accepting of authority, so there are more likely to move of of reddit. right leaning people also tend to be more conservative, so they are more likely to stay on there old platforms.
There have been many right-wing exodus from reddit over the years. All of them have centered around a perceived "free speech" issue, and they have always flocked to the most promising alternatives (e.g. Voat). Obviously Lemmy with its origins was never seen as particularly appealing for that crowd. This time the issue just happened to touch the left-leaning part more.
Probably also explains why Lemmy is doing well.
Knock on wood, but Lemmy's grown to the point now that it almost completely replaces Reddit for me. The only reason I still stop by Reddit is for more niche fandoms that haven't taken off here quite yet.
Yeah, there's that one shitty instance pretty much everyone defederated from a week or two ago.
It's actually one of the oldest instances, over a year old. Because the worst far right trolls that got ip banned from reddit came here when they couldn't make a new account on reddit.
I’m a right winger here for free speech reasons
Come on I don't think so. Lemmy was a left leaning platform since the beginning.
Well that's still the same point though. Lemmy and the fediverse are all about rejecting the authority of centralized services/social media.
I think it's a different political dimension entirely isn't it? You have left vs right economics, and then authoritarian vs libertarian governance. I don't buy into that stupid political compass, but the axes do seem accurate.
No, it's just a matter of who they accept as legitimate "authority".
If the Dumbass-in-Chief, their ministers, and their news had all told them to wear masks, they absolutely would have, but every single one of their primary authority sources were pulling in different directions and they don't accept any "liberal" sources as legitimate authority. You can see it at a much smaller scale by looking at Church congregation sizes where some ministries focused on trying to protect their elderly and infirm members and those who didn't.
Conservatives who had pastors who told them to wear masks were a LOT more likely to do so than ones who were getting mixed messaging.
Remember when their Dumbass-in-chief told them to get vaccinated and they booed him?
My crazy fundie paternal aunt told me the only reason Trump said to get vaccinated was because he was "forced" to say it, and that she does not believe, to this day, he ever got vaccinated or that he even ever got Covid.
We don't get along. 😂
I didn't follow mask mandates because I was required to or told to by any authority. I did it because it was the right thing to do based on the science, and still is (which is why I still mask up in enclosed or busy spaces).
If you're old enough to remember when seat belt laws started/became more prevalent, you'll remember the right-leaning folks were all up in arms because "muh freedom to do what I want if it doesn't hurt anyone else" not realizing (or not caring about) the effect their choices had on their children. While center/left leaning people were just like "I already wear it because it's the smart thing to do".
More recent example: smoking bans
I don't use a mask currently, but if transmission levels of the flu or COVID were notably above average in my city I absolutely would wear one indoors. I think with really busy indoor places I'd just find something else entirely. I don't know how I was ever okay with level of crowd density.
People on the "right" are vastly more accepting of authority than people on the left. For example, the people who didn't wear masks were willing to die because Tucker (or whichever right-wing shitgoblin they listen to) told them to. It wasn't some sort of anti-authoritarian expression, it was pure authoritarianism.
Right-wingers love authority, especially if it's the kind they approve of. It's literally part of the ideology. A lot of them didn't wear masks because the right-wing grifters (like Tucker) told them not too.
Wearing masks during the pandemic was just smart, common sense and had nothing to do with authority, in spite of the right-wingers trying to make it seem like it was.