Same reason Linux is popular on Lemmy. Lemmy is essentially an explicitly leftist community that appeals to people nerdy and techy enough to leave Reddit and join a smaller platform. Linux is a FOSS, ie leftist techy OS. Star Trek is leftist Sci-Fi.
Nerds, tech, and leftism all congregate on Lemmy.
✨️enshitification✨️
When has Clarence Thomas ever done the right thing? When do people think he will ever act properly under pressure?
Leaving Reddit was one of the best things I've done for my phone addiction. Lemmy isn't nearly as addictive, and the lack of a profit motive to fuck things up and encourage mass clicking helps control the content.
It's clearly a red scare parody.
Mint is my first distro! Love it as a nice simple intro to Linux.
Enshittification infects all.
It was founded by a Communist, and decentralization appeals to leftists. The non-Communist lemmy is Reddit, basically, or making your own instance or finding an anti-Communist instance.
I prefer social media not based on addiction. Lemmy has been much better for my lifestyle, than my reddit addiction.
This is obviously a leftist meme making fun of liberal and conservative fighting. It's from the perspective of someone to the left of liberals, not between liberals and conservatives.
Restructuring society around principles of Mutual Aid and other forms of Cooperative systems. Participatory Economics, for example, is a promising idea.
The chief philosophy is a rejection of all hierarchy, but not a rejection of order or society.
Nationalize internet.