For more context: I already had the communism and lefty communites blocked. I'd consider myself middle-left of the political spectrum but personally don't believe in some grand revolution saving us all. Most left communities on here seem to far out there for my personal taste at least. My comment is deleted but if you wanna see the post here's the link.
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My problem is the simping for dictators and dictatorships.
Oh also the Revolution LARPing and the anti-electoralism.
I find a lot of lefty communities around here (Lemmy in general) tick those boxes which means they're a no from me. But I'd be super happy if someone linked one that didn't tick those boxes.
I straight up stopped searching for communities that advertise that their left on here due to them basically ticking those boxes mentioned above.
Lemmy as a whole is pretty staunchly left and tolerant generally. Looking for things flagging themselves left here. Implies looking for the left of the left. Which ultimately leads to circle jerking and edgelord virtue signaling. It's a bad time. Left can mean different things to different people. Drasticly so. If you consider yourself "left" look into some of their philosophies and see what resonates. Then look for communities based around that. You'll likely have a much better time. And learn things in the process. Win win.
Yeah for real, I got sick of being gaslit eventually so I ended up just using my client to instance block some of the worst offenders and found similar communities on less extremist instances. Been a lot better since then.
Yeah I feel that... I like discussing novel ideas how things can be done different. I once had a longer discussion with one of the aforementioned users but I knew there was no point once they started denying mass starvation in the soviet union and the human rights infringements. I wish it could be different but I guess you gotta pick your poison whether or not to see these communities. Also I don't get them claiming china being supposedly communist when its really not but oh well...