I’m still new to lemmy. I’m a reddit migrant.

I joined in the first wave, and I was pleased to see a large leftist presence here. It was a bit refreshing, compared to the constant lib shit (or outright conservative takes) that was the norm on reddit.

Then the second wave of migrants hit and with it came ALL of the reactionaries. Suddenly Ukraine war news was hitting the front of my all page every day, with all of the usual, very liberal arguments in support of continuing the war indefinitely. Anyone to the left of bernie Sanders was being heavily downvoted, and all of the new libs were complaining about “Freedom of speech” not being enough here because of the early, big defederations that happened, while simultaneously demanding mods of their instances deliberately silence anyone to the left of their neolib brains.

It’s kind of infuriating. The word “tankie” has been eroded just like the word “woke” was by the right. It used to mean authoritarian leftist, now it’s being used to mean “anyone who doesn’t support US imperialist dogma uncritically.”

I liked lemmy more when it wasn’t full of libs.